Today we come to a very interesting topic in the field of HomeServer.
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We want to install our own URL shortener on our HomeSever. This means that shortened links can then be reached under your domain/desired name. There are several options here, e.g. you can also generate the shortened links randomly or provide them with numbers. But more on that. You can do it!
Or do you like to test it first?
Then try it below
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Database
First we create the databases and users again. To do that, let's switch to first
mysql
and then create the database with
CREATE DATABASE yourls;
and then the user with
CREATE USER 'yourlsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
and the corresponding password.
We'll give this to you
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yourls.* TO 'yourlsuser'@'localhost';
the permissions and load them as well
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
new.
Now we can do that
EXIT;
leave again.
Download Yourls
Now let's switch
cd /tmp
Into the temporary directory we also download YOURLS with
sudo wget https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/archive/refs/tags/1.9.1.zip
We'll unpack that
unzip 1.9.1.zip
and move it to the /var/www/ directory
sudo mv YOURLS-1.9.1 /var/www/
If we want, we can also add the folder
cd /var/www/
sudo mv YOURLS-1.9.1 yourls
rename.
config file
Now we have to go to the directory
cd yourls/user
switch and copy the config file there with
cp config-sample.php config.php
We now have to edit this with
sudo nano config.php
Here we need to adjust the following values:
define( 'YOURLS_DB_USER', 'yourlsuser' );
In the line above we need to enter our database user.
In the following line the database password
define( 'YOURLS_DB_PASS', 'password');
and the name of the database
define( 'YOURLS_DB_NAME', 'yourls' );
Here
define( 'YOURLS_SITE', 'yourls.example.com' );
we have to enter our desired domain.
With ctrl + w
we can also search for the following value:
$yourls_user_passwords = [
A user and a password are already specified below, which must be changed to the desired values.
Permissions
Now we need to set the permissions again with
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yourls
and
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/yourls
Apache2 config file
We have to take these with us
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
edit.
There we search again with ctrl + w
AllowOverride
We need all of these values, except for the area with <Directory /var/www/>
from
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverrideAll
adjust.
We insert the following block above the area with <Directory /var/www/>
:
<Directory /var/www/yourls/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverrideAll
Require all granted
</Directory>
virtual host
Now we create a virtual host with
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourls.conf
and add the following content:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourls.example.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/yourls"
<Directory "/var/www/yourls">
Require all granted
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverrideAll
Order allow deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Of course, as always, we have to take this file with us
sudo a2ensite yourls.conf
activate.
Now we also start the web server
sudo service apache2 restart
and
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
new.
Now we can go into the browser to configuration!
This can be done by opening the domain (only if we have defined an A record or AAAA record) /admin or ip/admin in the browser.
Here we go!
PS:
Do you want a certificate for this instance?
This is what you get with our article:
Thanks for reading,
Schächner
Top comments (3)
Hello ! Don't hesitate to put colors on your
codeblock
like this example for have to have a better understanding of your code 😎Thanks for the tip, hope it works now!
A better post with colors, goood! 🙌🏼