ne8.org URL minimizer

This is the source code behind http://ne8.org. This is plugin-based modular javaee application, very configuration and made for expansion. It will build into a war that can be deployed to any application server.

#Build instructions

• Kick off gradle build to build war (./gradelew build on unix)
• War will be in /UrlMinifierWebapp/build/libs

#Install Instructions

• Build application (use eclipse for now, gradle still WIP)
• Set up postgres database (Many tutorials exist, choose one applicable to your distribution, configure securely)
• Run DDL's (in /DDL/UrlMinifierV1.sql) in the local database.

##Debian+tomcat Instructions

• install apache2, mod_proxy
• debian: apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-jk
• install tomcat
• apt-get install tomcat8 tomcat8-admin
• uncomment and modify /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml
• run a2enmod proxy*
• run a2enmod rewrite
• uncomment in /etc/tomcat8/server.xml

    <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
    <!--
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
    -->

• Restart Apache
• Place config files(/config/), edit where needed
• Deploy war in tomcat
• Copy urlmini.xml and log4j.xml onto filesystem (in this example,
• Modify /etc/default/tomcat8 to include location to configuration, see example, these files will go in /etc/minimizer/

JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -DCONFIG_XML=/etc/minimizer/urlmini.xml -Dlog4j.configurationFile=/etc/minimizer/log4j2.xml"

• Deploy war to tomcat
• Configure apache to rewrite url from / to web app context root.

#TODO

• Memory Caching plugin (common used aliases should be stored in memory)
• UI Improvements