ukadev/uka-url

Simple URL Shortener using Blade Template System, Laravel Routing, Eloquent ORM and Bootstrap

Uka-url URL Shortener

Built with Lumen 8.x, Bootstrap v5 and jQuery-3.5.1, _(*1)

See the DEMO or just go down to the screenshot, _(*2)

Prerequisites

To make the application working you are going to need:, _(*3)

• LAMP environment or equivalent with mod_rewrite enabled
• composer

Installation

Follow the next instructions:, _(*4)

• Open console/terminal and run:
  git clone https://github.com/ukadev/uka-url.git, _(*5)

• Enter into the cloned folder and run:
  composer install, _(*6)

• Open the file .env in the application root directory (if doesn't exist, copy it from .env.example) and modify the following variables with your database connection details:
  DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret, _(*7)

• After configure the database variables, execute the command from the root of the application:
  php artisan migrate, _(*8)

• Set up your virtual host to point to the folder called public as the website root folder. You can use the next example if you want it (may require modifications):, _(*9)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/public
        <Directory /var/www/public>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order Deny,Allow
                Allow from all
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Extra notes

• If you want to add a value to the KEY variable of the .env file, you can execute the following command in the console/terminal and paste it there:
  php -r "echo md5(uniqid()).\"\n\";"

ScreenShot

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