shortsh-backend

This is the backend for the url shortener running at https://short.sh/.

The setup is simple, you have two choices:

1. Download a precompiled binary from the releases tab, tagged with the current version
2. Download the source and build yourself

1. Precompiled version

Steps:

• Download binary version for your platform
• Create a _config folder and copy the sample file from the _config folder or copy it from here

{
  "mysql_dsn": "user:pass@/db?charset=utf8",
  "allow_origins": "http://localhost:3000"
}

The mysql_dsn contains the access for the mysql database. The allow_origins property defines the origins from which we will accept requests from the webapp. If you have your webapp hosted at https://localhost:3000 then the origin would be like in the example.

2. Build from source

If you somehow like to build your own binaries (who doesn't?) then you can download the current source and follow the instructions below. Steps:

• Download the source from github
• Run go get
• Run go build

We use the go mod in this project so you need nearly no configurations and you are ready to go in a while.

Attention: This is just the frontend part, for the whole to work, you need to setup the shortsh-frontend and also the shortsh-redirector app. You can host the backend and redirector separately, but also on the same host. I recommend using a simplistic setup with nginx reverse proxy, to host the backend and redirector on different ports and virtually add more short domains further.