shorten/README.md

shorten

simple url shortener

Setup

Environmental variables:

• SHORTEN_HOST - hostname
• SHORTEN_BIND - bind address (default: 127.0.0.1:4488)
• SHORTEN_MAIL - optional email for support/abuse reports
• POSTGRES_URI - lib/pq connection string (see here)

Maintenance

shorten supports a domain blacklist to ban certain domains (e.g. spam, malware, etc.); you can use it by connecting to the database and inserting rows into the blacklist table.