This project is a simple bitly clone that shortens URLs and counts how many times those URLS are accessed.

Live Demo: https://srt.vtallen.com

• Allows the user to created shorted links of any url
• User accounts
  • Allows the tracking of the number of clicks on a URL
  • Allows the deletion of shortlinks created by a user
• hCaptcha on all forms to ensure the webapp is resistant to bot form submissions

• Golang
  • Echo (web server)
• HTMX
• SQlite

This server has been tested and verified for use only on Linux. You may run into unexpected issues running it on anything else.

1. Make a copy of config_template.yaml and rename it to config.yaml
2. Generate tls certificates, then modify config.yaml to have the paths of your certificate and key files
   • You can use standard let's encrypt certificates for this: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/generate-ssl-certificate-with-lets-encrypt-a8e26cf0a378
3. Go to https://www.hcaptcha.com/
   • Create an account
   • Copy your secret key and place it in config.yaml
   • Create a site key and place it in config.yaml
4. Generate a strong, random password to use as the cookie secret. Place this in config.yaml
5. Run make to generate an executable
6. Run the server sudo ./server