Linky is your friendly internal URL shortener service.
This app is super simple to get up and running and makes managing intranet short links super simple!
While I was searching for an open source version of the kinds of intranet URL shorteners that I was used to using at companies around Silicon Valley, I found that there are a ton of URL shorteners out there but all of them are either over complicated or just a "proof of concept". Linky was built to serve as a simple, yet useful, URL shortener for use internally in company based on what I've observed as useful inside large organizations.
You will need a postgres database to connect to.
Fork the code, push to Heroku.
Run the container:
docker run -d -p 80:80 -e DB=your_database -e DB_USER=your_user -e DB_PASS=your_pass parabuzzle/linky
- DB = hostname for the database
- DB_USER = the database username
- DB_PASS = the database password
- SECRET_KEY_BASE = the session secret key
- PORT = the application port to listen on
- RAILS_MAX_THREADS = number of threads per worker
- WEB_CONCURRENCY = number of puma workers
- FORCE_SSL = force to https
- LOG_LEVEL = log level to use
You need to create and setup the database on the first run:
rake db:create; rake db:migrate
or docker:
docker run -e DB=your_database -e DB_USER=your_user -e DB_PASS=your_pass parabuzzle/linky rake db:create; rake db:migrate
Params passing allows you to create fancier URL's by allowing you to specify a special redirect url when something is given after the initial short url.
As an example, let's say we have a short url known as twsearch that points to http://www.twitter.com/search... ok but then I've got to input my search when I get to the page... what if I could do http://go/twsearch/mysearch and it just executed the search? Well with params parsing you can! If I put http://www.twitter.com/search?q= in the optional params parsing field for the short url, it will split the twsearch/mysearch and pass the mysearch at the end of the url which would send you to http://www.twitter.com/search?q=mysearch automatically!
This feature is really useful for things like jira where you have a project like myproject linked with myjira which would send you to the dashboard but if you wanted to go directly to a ticket, you could do /myjira/TKT-123 which would use the ticket url. The possiblities are endless here!