_Kurz_ is yet another URL shortener.

  * built as a Go API
  * web front end provided
  * multiple shortening strategies. provided:
    * 32-bits hexa string, leading 0s omitted
    * base36
    * manual selection
  * vanity domain support
  * usage statistics


# Installing

1. Download the Kurz server to `$GOPATH/bin`
    ```bash
    go get code.osinet.fr/fgm/kurz/cmd/kurzd
    ```
1. Download the Kurz client to `$GOPATH/bin`
    ```bash
    go get code.osinet.fr/fgm/kurz/cmd/kurz
    ```
1. Configure a MySQL database for Kurz, say `osinet_kurz` 
1. Create the Kurz configuration
    ```bash
    mkdir ~/.kurz
    cp <kurz dir>/cmd/kurzd/dist.config.yml ~/.kurz/config.yml
    vi ~/.kurz/config.yml
1. Edit the configuration and save it. 
1. Discover the server syntax:
    ```bash
    kurzd help
    ```
1. Load the Kurz schema to the database:
    ```bash
    kurzd migrate up
    ```


# Runnning the Kurz server

```bash
kurzd
```


# Operating the Kurz server
## Backing up

```bash
kurzd export config > some_config_backup_file.yml
kurzd export content > some_content_backup_file.yml
```

This will need some automation, like cron, to trigger backups and ensure backups
rotation, as well as removal on uninstall.


## Logging

Kurzd [logs to stdout], so any production deployment will need to set up logs
acquisition and storage, with rotation, and remove them on uninstall. This is
normally part of a SystemD - or equivalent - service configuration.

[logs to stdout]: https://12factor.net/logs
 

# Uninstalling

1. Drop the Kurz database
    ```bash
    mysql -u<user> -p<password> -e "drop database osinet_kurz;"
    ```
1. If the database used a specific user/password, remove them from the database server
1. Remove the Kurz configuration
    ```bash
    rm ~/.kurz/config.yml
    ```
1. Remove Kurz binaries (assuming an single-component `$GOPATH`)
    ```bash
    rm $GOPATH/bin/kurz*
    ```