Clif's Edge - Self-hosted URL Shortener: Shlink
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Keep control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool.

A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - Keep control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool. https://shlink.io/

I was very surprised to find this mature, full-featured URL shortener. It’s written in PHP and includes Geoblocking so your shortener isn’t abused.

A Docker quick-start guide: https://lnk.clifmo.com/ljk13

  • clifmo@programming.devOPEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    How so? I am hosting and maintaining it for my own work and links. I have every incentive to keep it up. And if it goes down, only my links to my own content go down. And, the reason I did this was Bluesky has a character limit.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Ah that is probably my bad then, I read it as being able to redirect arbitrary URLs, hence the need for geoblock and abuse protections - if it’s only your own self-hosted/personal domains then yeah that absolutely makes sense.

      • clifmo@programming.devOPEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I think the concern re:geoblock is that the REST API is just out there, unauthenticated. I need to shut those off or limit them to the internal network with Traefik, but I still need the short links to resolve. I’m not sure if that API is used for that, or what. I haven’t explored the code yet.