Welcome to UrlShorter 👋

ShortURL is a open source URL shortening service (a.k.a URL redirection) allowing anyone to take any existing URL and shorten it.

✨ Demo: https://short.u2b.eu

Webui: https://github.com/Gaojianli/UrlShorter-web

Config

Name	Type	Details
SqlConnection	string	The connection string of the database
origin	string	The origin of the web ui, usually is just the URL of the web. If you set this uncorrectly, you may meet CORS error.
homePage	string	The URL of the web, if one short url is missing, the user will be redirected here.
prefix	string	The prefix of each short url.

Here're the config running on https://short.u2b.eu:

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "SqlConnection": "server=localhost;port=3306;database=shortUrl;uid=shorturl;pwd=<pwd>;CharSet=utf8"
  },
  "SiteSettings": {
    "origin": "https://short.u2b.eu",
    "homePage": "https://short.u2b.eu",
    "prefix": "https://u2b.eu"
  },
  "Kestrel": {
    "EndPoints": {
      "Http": {
        "Url": "http://0.0.0.0:5000"
      }
    }
  }
}

Install

Docker(Recommended)

1. Import the init.sql into your Mysql/Mariadb
2. Run the container

docker run -d -e ConnectionStrings__SqlConnection="server=<ip to the db>;port=<db port>;database=shortUrl;uid=shorturl;pwd=<pwd>;CharSet=utf8" \
-e SiteSettings__origin="https://short.u2b.eu" \
-e SiteSettings__homePage="https://short.u2b.eu" \
-e SiteSettings__prefix="https://u2b.eu" \
-p 5000:5000 \
--name url_shorter \
--restart=always \
url_shorter

Manually

1. Import the init.sql into your Mysql/Mariadb
2. Edit your database config in appsettings.json, then run:

dotnet build

Usage

dotnet run

Author

👤 Gaojianli

• Website: https://blog.gaojianli.me
• Github: @Gaojianli

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📝 License

Copyright © 2020 Gaojianli.
This project is MIT licensed.

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