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A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - A Docker Quick-Start Guide (lnk.clifmo.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - Keep control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool. https://shlink.io/

I was very surprised to find this mature, full-featured URL shortener. It's written in PHP and includes Geoblocking so your shortener isn't abused.

A Docker quick-start guide: https://lnk.clifmo.com/ljk13

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This maybe isn't for everyone but I de-dockerified Shlink pretty quickly. Moving it to two nginx vhosts (server and admin) on a Shlink LXC and a centralized Postgres server made dealing with it a lot easier.

E.g., the initial API key shenanigans were less fiddly after I took more direct control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. I deploy to my homelab with Docker so it was a fit for me. But I do want to tinker on the API to disable everything but GET. Can you share anything more about breaking it up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

It was mostly uneventful, to be honest. I downloaded the two apps (static admin and the php app), tossed them into /opt/www, and set up nginx to serve PHP. The config in the main app had a section for my Postgres settings and the docs gave the instructions on putting the default server configuration into the static site.

The only challenge was actually rather silly: I don't use PHP so it took me a bit to understand why apt install php installed Apache when I had already installed nginx. Once I found php-fpm it was smooth sailing from there.