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| author | Dennis Eriksen <d@ennis.no> | 2023-07-03 13:40:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Dennis Eriksen <d@ennis.no> | 2023-07-03 13:40:30 +0200 |
| commit | 7e2187285dd58591cd07aa948cf3001cffe3ff29 (patch) | |
| tree | ecb750727da84a73b7dba77f9b7c132cfb31d829 /README.md | |
| parent | Changing name to purl-rs (diff) | |
| download | purl-rs-7e2187285dd58591cd07aa948cf3001cffe3ff29.tar.gz | |
adding lincence, and some other useful stuff
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73d6484 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# purl-rs +A simple URL-shortener in Rust. + +I created this URL-shortener because it turned out that my previous one, `purl`, +which was written i perl, was impractical to run in a `chroot` environment. + +This new one, written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/), has far fewer +dependencies to worry about in a `chroot` environment. It is written as a +replacement for the old `purl`, and therefor uses +[CGI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface). + +I use Nginx as my web-proxy, and run the cgi-binaries through +[slowcgi(8)](https://man.openbsd.org/slowcgi). See `nginx.conf` for +example-configuration. |