🚡 A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener.

Polr is an intrepid, self-hostable open-source link shortening web application with a robust API. It allows you to host your own URL shortener, to brand your URLs, and to gain control over your data. Polr is especially easy to use, and provides a modern, themable feel.

Getting Started - API Documentation - Contributing - Bugs - IRC

Setup

The project is setup using docker, so running it for development is fairly simple:

• Copy docker-compose.yml.dist into docker-compose.yml
• Run docker-compose build then docker-compose up -d
• Add the following line in /etc/hosts file of the host OS

  127.0.0.1 fbk.st.test
  

If you're using volume mounting for coding, then for the first time, and also whenever a new composer dependency is added in composer.json manually, you must run composer install inside docker. The reason for this is that docker does not mount the volume while building the image. So when the volume is mounted on docker run, then the directory /var/www/html will be overwritten and the changes in /var/www/html/vendor directory will be lost. To overcome this issue while benefiting from volume mounting, perform the following extra steps whenever there's a change in composer dependencies:

• Run docker-compose exec web sh
• When inside docker, run php composer.phar install

After the setup, the app should be accessible on https://fbk.st.test.

Quickstart

Polr is written in PHP and Lumen, using MySQL as its primary database.

• To get started with Polr on your server, check out the installation guide. You can clone this repository, or download a release.
• To get started with the Polr API, check out the API guide.

Installation TL;DR: clone or download this repository, set document root to public/, create MySQL database, go to yoursite.com/setup and follow instructions.

Demo

To test out the demo, head to demo.polr.me and use the following credentials:

• Username: demo-admin
• Password: demo-admin

Upgrading Polr

Upgrading from 1.x:

There are breaking changes between 2.x and 1.x; it is not yet possible to automatically upgrade to 2.x.

Upgrading from 2.x:

• Back up your database and files
• Update by using git pull or downloading a release
• Run composer install --no-dev -o to ensure dependencies are up to date
• Migrate with php artisan migrate to ensure database structure is up to date

Browser Extensions

• Safari - Polr.safariextension

Versioning

Polr uses Semantic Versioning

License

Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Chaoyi Zha

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.