sqozz/schort

schort is a tiny link shortener written in python3 and flask

schort - It's just a tiny link shortener

Installation instructions:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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.