[kwlug-disc] Link shortener advice

[Chris Frey]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:17:29PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Personally, I think using a link shortener is the best of a set of
> bad options. Thus my question stands. What should I do to get the least
> worst link shortening option?

Having never relied on url shorteners, I don't have a lot of tips, but
this strikes me as a basic problem to solve, and I'd probably start
by hacking on nginx configs until I had something I could manage
simply with shell scripts and/or salt.

Note the nginx rewrite commands used in the following example, which
includes a list of short urls into your config.  He uses github actions
to automate things, but I'd probably use bash or salt.

https://dev.to/koddr/personal-url-shortener-on-your-domain-with-automation-through-github-actions-2h2i

- Chris