Tutorial

I finally got the time to write a Django tutorial. In this tutorial we are building URL Shortener. If you are confused with what we are building then we are building something similar to (bit.ly) or (goo.gl). We are building the app that will make a shorter URL of a longer URL. (Example) Normally the shorter URL will be localhost:8000/4hh5kr for www.facebook.com I am using Django 1.7.1 with Python 3.3.2+. Don’t worry if you have different version of Django because we will set up our virtual environment and install latest version of Django.

By default in Laravel the URL to access your site is http://example.com/public/. It is not good to keep public in URL as it makes URL ugly and longer. So, let’s talk about the solution to remove /public/ from the URL. Method I : Using .htaccess Create a .htaccess file your Laravel root directory if it does not exists already. (Normally it is under your public_html folder) And add the following code to it: