Shortie.

Shortie is a project I created for managing short URLs and tracking. Created with Laravel, Vue, and Inertia.

Features

• Manage your Short URLs, either company-wide or per user.
• Short URL Analytics
• User management with configuration around allowing new users / default roles.
• Domain management for self-managed domains.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or above
• MySQL / Postgre / SQLite
• Node v24: For building assets

Installation

First, download the project to where you intend to host it from.

via HTTPS:

git clone git@github.com:Harrk/Shortie.git

Install dependencies.

composer install --no-dev

Configure your .env file with your database credentials.

php artisan migrate

To build assets:

yarn && yarn build

Create yourself an admin user.

php artisan app:create-admin

Navigate to the location you're hosting the project from to verify it's all set up.

Setting Up

Before creating a short URL, you must set up a domain. You will need to do this even if you only intend to use a single domain.

Enabling Geolocation

Shortie uses the laravel-geoip package to assist with fetching the visitor's country and city from their IP address. By default, it uses the MaxMind database which also requires an account.

Note: Using the file/database caching driver is not compatible with laravel-geoip. Consider using a different driver, like Redis.

Once you have a MaxMind account, add your MaxMind API key to your .env file:

MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY=YOUR_KEY

Then run the geoip:update command to fetch the latest database.

php artisan geoip:update

If using the MaxMind database you will need to keep this updated. This does not come preconfigured at this time, so you will want to run php artisan geoip:update via the cron/scheduler once a day.

Then finally you will need to enable the geolocation feature via the settings page in your Shortie admin area.

There's a lot more to this so check the documentation for laravel-geoip for more information on this topic.

Short URL Rules

It is possible to redirect users to different URLs if the geolocation feature is enabled. However, this also depends on building the local countries table.

This can be done by running the following command to import them from restcountries.com.

php artisan app:import-countries

Contributing

Please review the CONTRIBUTING.md document before making any contributions to the project.