ojarva / django-shorturl

Simple URL shortening service

django-shorturl

This is minimal URL shortening service built on Django.

• Automatic URL generation
• Usage statistics (view counts)
• Custom URLs
• Fixes most commong copy-paste errors (missing protocol scheme, missing "h" from http" etc.)

Installation and requirements

• Separate domain (/hostname). Configure to shorturl/local_settings.py:SHORTURL_DOMAIN
• Configure basic authentication (or any basic authentication compatible) to your web server. Alternatively, disable remote user middleware from settings.py (and configure models based authentication)
• Django >1.4, sqlite or other database
• Standard Django WSGI deployment, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/
• Add "manage.py check_urls" to cron (once per hour or so)
• Remember to run

./manage.py syncdb
./manage.py collectstatic