SHORTISH

Shortish is a URL shortening webapp which is used to shorten any URL. Shortish also gives you a choice to customize your shortened URLs.

You can see the live version of this application here.

Instructions

1. Get the source code on your pc via git and navigate inside the folder through your terminal.

  git clone https://github.com/altruistcoder/URL_Shortener

2. Create a virtual environment and navigate inside it.

  virtualenv venv

3. Move the contents of cloned repository inside virtual environment folder.

4. Activate the virtual environment (You have to activate it everytime you are working on project).

  For mac users:

    source bin/activate  

  For windows users:

    .\Scripts\activate

  For Linux users:

    source activate <environment-name>

5. Now, install python dependencies.

  pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Now, navigate to the directory containing manage.py file.

7. Run following command:

  python manage.py migrate
  python manage.py runserver

8. Shortish is ready for use. You can run it at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.