background

In daily business, we may have a lot of business promotion or sharing links, these links are generally long and complex, so how to elegantly shorten and manage your long links has become a pain point. Some of the popular short connection platforms on the market now either charge a fee or only apply to their own business, which is not suitable for ordinary users. After a bit of research, we found that YOURLS is the perfect solution to your users’ pain points. YOURLS is a free URL shorter-link management platform that you can use to build your own URL shortening service and track visits. It’s worth exploring.

Application advantages

  • Stable: YOURLS is a popular open source project on GitHub, currently has more than 7,000 star reviews, contributors continue to maintain, version stability.

  • Rich features: support to view click history and frequency statistics, recommendation tracking, visitor location, etc.

  • Easy to use: YOURLS is very easy to install, just a few simple steps to install successfully.

  • Simple interface: YOURLS interface is extremely simple and focuses on core functions such as generating custom short chains.

  • Plug-in system: YOURLS supports the installation of plug-ins, rich application functions.

One-click Enable rapid deployment

3.1. Installation guidelines

YOURS recommends using Docker for installation. Before installation, you need to prepare the server and provide Web services, install Docker, apply for domain name, configure DNS domain name resolution and a series of operations, which require users to have a certain technical background, interested can refer to YOURLS official image. Today, we will introduce Tencent cloud’s open source application center service to enable rapid deployment mode with one click, so that you can quickly complete YOURLS site construction work.

Step 1: Log in to Tencent Cloud and open the home page of open Source Application Center and search for YOURLS application.

Step 2: Click free experience or official opening, the opening is complete. The account and password shown below are your administrator account and password.

3.2. Usage Guidelines

Click the access address to log in first, as shown in the picture below.

After login, enter the application home page, as shown in the following figure.

Then you can set the short chain you want.

Experience summary

Since the app doesn’t allow you to change your account and password on the screen, it’s best to set a slightly more complicated and unique password when you open the app.

To learn more

Open source application free experience:

app.cloud.tencent.com

Progress of open Source application plug-in Project:

openapp.qq.com/docs