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            <h1>Self-hosted URL Shortener with Shlink</h1>
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          <h2>What is Shlink?</h2>

<blockquote><em>A PHP-based self-hosted URL shortener that can be used to serve shortened URLs under your own custom domain.</em> -<a href="https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink" target="_blank">https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink</a></blockquote>

<h2>Installing Shlink</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install pre-requisites<br />
	sudo apt install lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates -y<br />
	# add php gpg key<br />
	sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg<br />
	# add php apt repository<br />
	echo &quot;deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main&quot; | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list<br />
	# update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt install php8.0 libapache2-mod-php8.0 php8.0-curl php8.0-intl php8.0-gd php8.0-pdo php8.0-fpm php8.0-common php8.0-mysql php8.0-xml php8.0-apcu -y<br />
	# enable/disable apache2 modules<br />
	sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork php8.0<br />
	sudo a2enmod mpm_event rewrite proxy_fcgi setenvif php8.0<br />
	sudo a2enconf php8.0-fpm<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the ShlinkIO database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock"># NOTE: update the password with a secure password<br />
	CREATE DATABASE shlinkio;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON shlinkio.* to &#39;shlinkio_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;$hlink10!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands to download and extract shlinkio
	<div class="codeBlock"># download latest shlink.io version<br />
	sudo wget https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink/releases/download/v2.6.2/shlink2.6.2_php8.0_dist.zip<br />
	# extract the zip archive<br />
	sudo unzip shlink2.6.2_php8.0_dist.zip -d /var/www<br />
	# rename the extracted folder<br />
	sudo mv /var/www/shlink* /var/www/shlinkio<br />
	# set the owner of the new shlinkio directory to www-data<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/shlinkio<br />
	# run the shlinkio installer<br />
	sudo -u www-data php /var/www/shlinkio/bin/install</div>
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	<li>Type 0 for MySQL &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Type shlinkio for the database name &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Press enter to use localhost for the database host</li>
	<li>Press enter to accept the default MySQL port</li>
	<li>Type shlinkio_rw for the database username &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Type the shlinkio_rw password created earlier &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Press Enter at the Unix socket prompt</li>
	<li>Enter the default domain name to use for shortened URLs,</li>
	<li>Type 0 for http &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Press Enter to validate long URLs</li>
	<li>Press Enter to accept the default shortened URL length</li>
	<li>Press Enter to say no to having shlink resolve page titles</li>
	<li>Press Enter to track orphan visits</li>
	<li>Press Enter at the GeoLite2 license key prompt</li>
	<li>Press Enter to anonymize report IP addresses</li>
	<li>Enter 301 for the kind of redirect &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Press Enter to accept the default redirect cache value</li>
	<li>Press Enter to accept displaying a 404 for all 3 redirects options</li>
	<li>Press Enter to leave parameter name blank</li>
	<li>Type No to enable safety check &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Type /shlinkio for the path &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Press Enter at the integrations prompt</li>
	<li>With the installation completed, run the following command to create a shlinkio.conf apache configuration
	<div class="codeBlock"># download shlinkio web client<br />
	sudo wget https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink-web-client/releases/download/v3.1.0/shlink-web-client_3.1.0_dist.zip<br />
	# extract the zip archive<br />
	sudo unzip shlink-web-client_3.1.0_dist.zip<br />
	# move the extracted files to the web root<br />
	sudo mv ./shlink-web-client*/* /var/www/html<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/shlinkio.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into shlinkio.conf
	<p>Alias /shlinkio &quot;/var/www/shlinkio/public/&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory /var/www/shlinkio/public&gt;<br />
	Options FollowSymlinks Includes ExecCGI<br />
	AllowOverride All<br />
	Require all granted<br />
	Order allow,deny<br />
	allow from all<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;<br />
	<directory shlinkio=""></directory></p>
	</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to shlinkio.conf</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable the shlinkio site<br />
	sudo a2ensite shlinkio<br />
	# restart apache2 service for the changes to take effect<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2<br />
	# generate an API key<br />
	sudo -u www-data php /var/www/shlinkio/bin/cli api-key:generate</div>
	</li>
	<li>Copy the generated API key to the clipboard</li>
	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP</li>
	<li>Click the add your first server link</li>
	<li>Enter a name for the server, the URL should be http://DNSorIP/shlinkio and paste the copied API key from earlier</li>
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