YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) It’s a free PHP script created by Lester Chan and Ozh Richard that allow you to create something similar to TinyURL and Bit.ly.
YOURLS also comes with developer API as well as Wordpress plugin. In this post we show you simple guide on how to setup YOURLS.
Read more about YOURLS requirements.
1. Download
Download the latest version of YOURLS. Unzip it and fire up your favorite text editor. We are about to do some configurations.
2. Configure
- Look for
includes/config-sample.php, rename it toincludes/config.phpand open up in editor. - Mandatory settings you’ll need to change are:
YOURLS_DB_USER,YOURLS_DB_PASS,YOURLS_DB_NAME,YOURLS_SITE. Last but not least, change your password forusernameandusername2. The rest of the settings are optional. We suggest you go through the entire thing, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Please drop us a comment if you have problem filling this, or check out the YOURLS configuration guide. - Create a database – Create a database with the name you’ve inserted for
YOURLS_DB_NAME. If your web hosting account provide you with cPanel, login and find “MySQL Database” under Databases column.
3. Upload
Upload all files and folders in the exact same structure to the root folder of your web hosting account. Your root folder name might varies from public_html, www, html, etc.
4. Install
We are almost done now. Fire up a browser, type in your domain name as url, follow by /admin/install.php. For example: http://yoursite.com/admin/install.php.
If everything is setup correctly, you’ll see these following messages with the link to your admin page at the end of the line.
5. Done!
Go on, login and start creating your very own short URL. Make sure you check out the Tools too, if you’d like to make a bookmarklet. Here’s a sample of how our YOURLS admin page looks like.
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