About YOURLS

Developer API to integrate YOURLS into other applications,
Sample files to create your own public interface and more ! Stats for each short URL Download YOURLS from GitHub and see see the Install guide YOURLS is made by awesome people

Keep up to date: read the official YOURLS Blog

Unzip the YOURLS archive
Copy user/config-sample
php to user/config
php
Open user/config
php with a raw text editor (like Notepad) and fill in the required settings
Upload the unzipped files to your domain public_html or www folder
Create a new database (see Configuration – you can also use an existing one)
Point your browser to http://your-own-domain-here
com/admin/ The documentation on docs yourls org is full of important information Regarding installation, you'll find help for Apache and Nginx

You will also find numerous unofficial installation guides on Awesome YOURLS, a curated list of resources

Upload files to your server, overwriting your existing install (this won't affect user files such as config or plugins)
YOURLS_DB_USER your MySQL username Example: define( 'YOURLS_DB_USER', 'joe' );
YOURLS_DB_PASS your MySQL password Example: define( 'YOURLS_DB_PASS', 'MySeCreTPaSsW0rd' );
YOURLS_DB_NAME: The database name Example: define( 'YOURLS_DB_NAME', 'yourls' );
YOURLS_DB_HOST The database host Example: define( 'YOURLS_DB_HOST', 'localhost' );
YOURLS_DB_PREFIX The name prefix for all the tables YOURLS will need Example: define( 'YOURLS_DB_PREFIX', 'yourls_' );
YOURLS_SITE Your (hopefully short) domain URL, no trailing slash, lowercase
If you pick the non-www version of your domain, don't use the www version in your browser (and vice-versa) Example: define( 'YOURLS_SITE', 'https://your-own-domain-here
com' );
YOURLS_PRIVATE Private means the admin area will be protected with login/pass as defined below
See Private or Public for more
Example: define( 'YOURLS_PRIVATE', true );
YOURLS_UNIQUE_URLS Allow multiple short URLs for a same long URL Set to true to allow only one pair of shortURL/longURL (default YOURLS behavior), or to false to allow creation of multiple short URLs pointing to the same long URL (as bit
ly does) Example: define( 'YOURLS_UNIQUE_URLS', true );
yourls_user_passwords A list of username(s) and password(s) allowed to access the site if private Passwords can either be in plain text, or encrypted: see https://yourls
org/userpassword for more information
Example: 'joe' => 'mypassword'
YOURLS_URL_CONVERT URL shortening method: base 36 or 62
See FAQ for more explanations
yourls_reserved_URL A list of reserved keywords that won't be used as short URLs
Define here negative, unwanted or potentially misleading keywords Example: 'porn', 'faggot', 'sex', 'nigger', 'fuck', 'cunt', 'dick'
YOURLS_PRIVATE_INFOS If YOURLS_PRIVATE is set to true, you can still make stat pages public
To do so, define with: define('YOURLS_PRIVATE_INFOS', false);
YOURLS_PRIVATE_API If YOURLS_PRIVATE is set to true, you can still make your API public
To do so, define with: define('YOURLS_PRIVATE_API', false);
YOURLS_NOSTATS If YOURLS_NOSTATS is set to true, redirects won't be logged and there will be not stats available