URL Shortener without all the crap
gShort
Overview
gShort is a URL shortener that you can selfhost or easily deploy to a PaaS.
Features
Configuration
gShort requires a json configuration file, you can check the one that demo site uses here.
General
MongoDB
mongodb+srv://$USER:$PASSWORD@cluster1-agata.mongodb.net/
(Required but can be overridden)RandomStringGenerator
ReCaptcha
""
. (Optional and can be overridden)""
(Optional and can be overridden)Heroku (or other PaaS)
Deployment to Heroku should be pretty straightforward:
config.json
fileMongoDB_Collection
MongoDB_Database
MongoDB_URI
ReCaptcha_SecretKey
ReCaptcha_SiteKey
Getting Started (self Host)
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