Commit 62edb23d authored by 132ikl's avatar 132ikl Committed by 132ikl
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Add nginx configuration to README

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# liteshort
liteshort is a link shortener designed with lightweightness, user and sysadmin-friendliness, privacy, and configurability in mind.

Click [here](https://ls.ikl.sh) for a live demo.

*Why liteshort over other URL shorteners?*

liteshort is designed with the main goal of being lightweight. It does away with all the frills of other link shorteners and allows the best of the basics at a small resource price. liteshort uses under 20 MB of memory idle, per worker. liteshort has an easy-to-use API and web interface. liteshort doesn't store any more information than necessary: just the long and short URLs. It does not log the date of creation, the remote IP, or any other information.
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    * Lists all links in the database, sorted by long links.
* `delete`
    * Deletes a URL. In the form data, set `short` to the short link you want to delete, or set `long` to delete all short links that redirect to the provided long link.
    
## Using a reverse proxy
The following are barebones examples of an nginx proxy for liteshort, meaning it doesn't have SSL or anything fancy. You may also use a non-nginx webserver by making a config equivalent for it based upon the following configurations. Make sure your webserver is serving the /static/ folder. While liteshort can serve the folder, webservers are much more efficient at serving static files.

### On domain root


```
server {

    listen 80;

    server_name example.com;
    
    location ^~ /static/  {
         include  /etc/nginx/mime.types;
         root /usr/local/liteshort/;
    }

    location / {
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/path/to/liteshort/liteshort.sock;
    }
}
```

### On a subdomain
First, make sure `site_domain` and `subdomain` options are set in config.yml. If you want the web interface on a subdomain, but the actual shortlinks on the main domain, as seen on the [demo site](https://ls.ikl.sh), use a configuration akin to the following. Make sure that anything you want to happen before liteshort, like a homepage on /, has its location block BEFORE the rewrite block. Nginx goes in numerical order of location blocks, so the rewrite location block will redirect everything on / to liteshort if not the last block.

```
server {

    listen 80;

    server_name subdomain.example.com;

    location / {
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/path/to/liteshort/liteshort.sock;
    }
}

server {

    listen 80;
 
    server_name example.com;
    
    location ^~ /static/  {
         include  /etc/nginx/mime.types;
         root /usr/local/liteshort/;
    }
    
    location / {
        rewrite /example/subdomain.example(.+) /$1 break;
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/usr/local/liteshort/liteshort.sock;
    }
}
```
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processes = 2

socket = liteshort.sock
chmod-socket = 660
chmod-socket = 666
vacuum = true

die-on-term = true