About TinyUrl

Basic functionality for implementing a "URL Shortener".

• A user should be able to place in a long URL and submit.
• It should store the long version of the URL, and generate a short URL for the user.
• All subsequent requests to the short URL should send the user to the long URL by some manner of redirect.
• Using Laravel Framework.
• Using MySQL DB

Live Demo: http://drupey.com/

1. Environment Setup

Create User

$ adduser tinyurl

Switch users

$ su tinyurl

Create Project Folder

$ mkdir /webrootpath/tinyurl

Set Ownership

$ chown -R tinyurl:www-data /webrootpath/tinyurl

$ chmod 2750 /webrootpath/tinyurl

Go to directory

$ cd /webrootpath/tinyurl

Clone your repo

$ git clone https://github.com/ohdavey/tinyurl.git .

2. Create Database

Open mysql connection

$ mysql -u root -p

Copy and Paste MySQL Statement below*

CREATE DATABASE `your_db` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci ;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `your_db`.* TO `your_user`@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
GRANT SELECT,LOCK TABLES on `your_db`.* TO `your_db`backup@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

3. DEPLOY

Copy Virtual Host

$ cp /path/to/your/tinyurl.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/tinyurl.conf

Enable Site

$ a2ensite tinyurl

Restart Server

$ service apache2 restart

4. Configure Project Setting Files

Go to Project root

$ cd /webrootpath/tinyurl

Configure your .env file

$ cp .env.example

Edit and apply your configurations.

$ vi .env