vise

A quick n' dirty URL shortener used by https://menteb.in.

No, there are no nice features here. It's just a URL shortener that requires you to manually edit a links.ini file.

Heavily based on Martin Angelov's code.

Installation

Apache httpd 2.4 on Debian/Ubuntu

Install Apache httpd and PHP:

apt install libapache2-mod-php

Clone this repository as your web root directory:

git clone https://github.com/mentebinaria/vise.git /var/www/vise

Enable mod_rewrite:

a2enmod rewrite

Create a virtual host configuration file for your new website. For example, consider a /etc/apache2/sites-available/vise.conf file with the following content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName domain.com:80
        ServerAlias www.menteb.in
        DocumentRoot /var/www/vise

        <Directory /var/www/vise>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess:

cd /var/www/vise
mv htaccess.txt .htaccess

Rename links.ini.sample to links.ini:

cd /var/www/vise
mv links.ini.sample links.ini

Restart httpd:

systemctl restart apache2

Other OSes

Other operating systems and Linux flavors combination should work. If you have instructions for them, please submit a PR.

Usage

Just add entries to links.ini file, one per line. You don't need to restart the webserver for new entries to take effect.