Url Shortening simple web application

README.md

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-# UrlShortening
+# UrlShortening
+1. Make sure that Python is installed on your system. If not then download and install from www.python.org. Install Python version 2.7
+2. Set the following paths in the PATH environment variable :
+	- C:\Python27\
+	- C:\Python27\Scripts\
+	- C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\
+4. To install Python packages on your computer, Setuptools is needed. Download the latest version of Setuptools for your Python version at		  	 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows-powershell-3-or-later
+3. If pip is not installed in your computer then open a command prompt and type easy_install pip
+4. Then enter pip install django. You can verify by typing  django-admin --version that django has successfully installed
+5. Once all these setups are complete go to the folder containing this project in the command prompt. 
+6. Go inside the url_shortening folder and then type python manage.py runserver
+7. This will start the server and you can access the application in your web browser using http://localhost:8000/my_shortener.com or http://127.0.0.1:8000/my_shortener.com
+8. To close the server from the command prompt used CTRL + C

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url_shortening/README.txt

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+# UrlShortening
+1. Make sure that Python is installed on your system. If not then download and install from www.python.org. Install Python version 2.7
+2. Set the following paths in the PATH environment variable :
+	- C:\Python27\
+	- C:\Python27\Scripts\
+	- C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\
+4. To install Python packages on your computer, Setuptools is needed. Download the latest version of Setuptools for your Python version at		  	 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows-powershell-3-or-later
+3. If pip is not installed in your computer then open a command prompt and type easy_install pip
+4. Then enter pip install django. You can verify by typing  django-admin --version that django has successfully installed
+5. Once all these setups are complete go to the folder containing this project in the command prompt. 
+6. Go inside the url_shortening folder and then type python manage.py runserver
+7. This will start the server and you can access the application in your web browser using http://localhost:8000/my_shortener.com or http://127.0.0.1:8000/my_shortener.com
+8. To close the server from the command prompt used CTRL + C