URLANG - An Erlang URL Shortener
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Author: Tim Bielawa [email protected]

Attempt at making an Erlang based URL shortening service.

Simple setup

So far I've only ran this on a server that already had a web server running. I got another short domain name to use for the future shortener and set up a simple reverse proxy in Apache like this:

<VirtualHost lnx.cx:80>
    ServerName lnx.cx
    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm
    DocumentRoot /var/www/lnx.cx

    ProxyRequests off
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:5678/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5678/
</VirtualHost>

Once the proxy is set up just go into the src directory and run make, then make run.

Limitations

This not complete. URLs are hard coded into the source code. There is no other way of adding new URLs at this time.

TODO

• Integrate a Mnesia database to enable persistence.

• Add ability to store new URLs