This is a simple URL shortening service. It can be remotely deployed and run on a target host with a single command.
Automated deployment and starting of services is handled by Chef Solo (https://docs.getchef.com/chef_solo.html).
The application is written in Django, served with Gunicorn and nginx, all data is persisted using SQLite (./shorter/db.sqlite).
A URL can be shortened with the following:
curl -X GET http://example.com/submit/?u=https://www.google.com
Which will return a shortened URL:
http://example.com/X
To get the full URL of a shortened URL:
curl -X GET http://example.com/X
Which will return the full, original URL:
https://www.google.com
Key-based access is required to access the target host.
No further setup should be necessary. The only prerequisites are Bash and ssh, both of which should be installed if you did the step above.
Edit the deploy.sh file to point at the SSH key needed to access the target host.
Deploy the application with the following commands:
cd deploy/
./deploy.sh user@hostname.com