README

sherl - URL Shortening Service in Erlang
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Sherl is a URL shortening service.  For details see the following
posts:

* http://userprimary.net/user/2009/06/15/writing-a-url-shortening-service-in-erlang-part-1/
* http://userprimary.net/user/2009/06/18/writing-a-url-shortening-service-in-erlang-part-2/
* http://userprimary.net/user/2009/06/20/writing-a-url-shortening-service-in-erlang-part-3/
* http://userprimary.net/user/2009/06/29/writing-a-url-shortening-service-in-erlang-part-4/

Dependencies
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* Erlang
* webmachine http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/wiki/Home
* GNU Make

Getting Started
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1. Download webmachine.  Unpack and run make at the top level.
2. Create a symbolic link lib/sherlweb/deps/webmachine pointing to
   your top-level installation of webmachine.
3. run make
4. cd lib/sherlweb && ./start-dev.sh
5. sherl should be waiting for you at http://localhost:8000/