Installing a custom link shortener

rdelrossi

I'm interested in using Shortly, a project by Brett Terpstra, to shorten URLs to use one of my custom domains. The installation instructions are here and I was quickly over my head.

Terpstra says this can be installed as an Apache app or under Nginx. I presume Nginx is the appropriate choice for installation here, but I'm not sure which Nginx option to chose. At some point I need to add

server {
    location / {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
    }
}

To my app's config.php file and then initialize the included MySQL database to save the link redirects.

Before I get started digging into this, could I ask for some guidance. For a start, is this do-able here?

Thanks, as always, for any help.

-- Robert

nick

rdelrossi Hi Robert, it looks like the Apache method, using the .htaccess rules would be the simplest approach. Just create an Apache app from our dashboard and use that as the base. The included database.sql would just be imported into a database you create at our end.

The NGIX method will not work by default since we do not provide access to the nginx server config. If you want to go that route, you would have to setup your own NGINX/PHP-FPM instance.