5tags

So you want to use “Shorty”, the short URL engine, but can’t seem to be able to install it on Media Temple’s servers. Here is how I got it to work.

1. Download the latest Shorty. For this tutorial I used the first beta.
2. Create a new database or find the database name of an existing one. I suggest that you use an existing one becuase (mt) have a limit.
3. Upload the ’shorty’ directory to your web server. You can rename it to anything you wish now or after the installation. I named mine “go” so that my short URLs are “5tags.com/go/url”
4. Download my edited _install.php file. I had to change a few things to make it work on Media Temple.
   
5. Run the included installer http://yourdomain.com/shorty/_install.php
6. If you get an error about a .htaccess file make sure that you uploaded that to the “shorty” directory with everything else.
7. As directed, remove the _install.php file from the directory for security reasons.
8. You are good to go.