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About schort

No login, no javascript, just short links.

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Languages/Platforms/Technologies:

Python

Lincenses:

CC0-1.0

More about schort

schort - It's just a tiny link shortener

Installation instructions:

Create a user and adjust permissions to write at least into /opt/schort/data
1. sudo mkdir -p /opt/schort
2. sudo groupadd schort
3. sudo useradd -d /opt/schort -g schort -M -s /sbin/nologin schort
4. sudo chown -R schort:schort /opt/schort
5. sudo -u schort git clone https://github.com/sqozz/schort.git /opt/schort
6. sudo chmod 770 /opt/schort/data
Install requirements:
1. sudo -u schort virtualenv /opt/schort/venv
2. sudo -u schort -s
3. source ./venv/bin/activate
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
Configure your wsgi or fcgi server:
1. Check the docs of your preferred server. E.g. gunicorn, uwsgi, fastcgi, …
2. uwsgi example: /usr/bin/uwsgi --master --daemonize /dev/null --disable-logging --plugin python39 --wsgi-file /opt/schort/schort.wsgi --post-buffering 1 --enable-threads --socket /tmp/uwsgi_schort.sock --processes 1 --fileserve-mode /opt/schort/schort.wsgi --pidfile /var/run/uwsgi_schort/schort.pid
Configure your webserver that he talks to your wsgi/fcgi server:
1. Check the docs of your preferred webserver. E.g. nginx, apache, …
2. nginx example (you should really look into securing your server with https):

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name schort.your.domain;

    sendfile on;
    client_max_body_size 20M;
    keepalive_timeout 0;

    location / { try_files $uri @schort; }
    location @schort {
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/uwsgi_schort.sock;
    }
}

Requirements:

Module	Explanation
Flask	Flask handels all HTTP-stuff in this application
sqlite3	In gentoo this useflag needs to be set while compiling python3

µWSGI

The schort.wsgi file can be set as UWSGI_PROGRAM if you use uWSGI. Keep in mind, that the UWSGI_DIR needs to be set to the path where schort.py resists. This is because schort is not installed in a global scope. Since schort.wsgi imports schort.py it needs his workspace in the same folder.