The definitive self-hosted, simple and fast URL shortener. This tool allows to shorten long links from any websites.

The name is an abbreviation for short link, but if you get the words shrink and link together, the result is shlink too.

• PHP 8.x
• Nginx
• MySQL 8.x

Modify the configuration of config.php.

The contents of nginx-rewrite.conf need to be added to the Nginx configuration file.

Or use the full configuration file nginx-shlink.conf.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE shlink_db DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

mysql> CREATE USER 'shlink'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'STRONG_PASSWORD';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON shlink_db.* TO 'shlink'@'localhost';

mysql> USE shlink_db;

mysql> CREATE TABLE `urls` (
  `uid` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `id` VARCHAR(10),
  `data` text,
  `time` datetime,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`uid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> exit

• Long to short links.
• Simple interface.
• One click copy.
• Link validity time.