TL;DR; Fast track

This short documentation page will guide you through the steps required to get redirection.io work on your own infrastructure. If you use Cloudflare, you may also read our Cloudflare Workers integration help, which is even more straightforward.

Debian and apt-based distributions

If you use a Debian-like Linux distribution and want the easy way of trying / installing redirection.io, please use the following commands:

1. Select your distribution

   In the next steps, please use the right values, depending on your distribution version:

   Debian 12 (Bookworm)

   repository source url: bookworm main

   Debian 11 (Bullseye)

   repository source url: bullseye main

   Debian 10 (Buster)

   repository source url: buster main

   Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

   repository source url: noble main

   Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

   repository source url: jammy main

   Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

   repository source url: focal main

2. Install the apt-transport-https package:

   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
   

3. Import our apt repository key:

   sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
   wget -qO- https://packages.redirection.io/gpg.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/redirectionio-archive-keyring.asc
   

4. Add our Debian repository urls:

   echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/redirectionio-archive-keyring.asc] https://packages.redirection.io/deb/stable/2 any main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packages_redirection_io_deb.list > /dev/null
   echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/redirectionio-archive-keyring.asc] https://packages.redirection.io/deb/stable/2 bookworm main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packages_redirection_io_deb.list > /dev/null

5. Update the apt cache and install redirection.io's agent and nginx-module:

   sudo apt update && sudo apt install redirectionio-agent libnginx-mod-redirectionio
   

6. reload nginx

   sudo systemctl reload nginx
   

You're done! redirection.io is installed, up and running. You can go on with redirection.io's nginx configuration and should see some logs within minutes 🎉

Red Hat and rpm-based distributions

If you use a Red Hat/CentOS-like Linux distribution and want the easy way of trying / installing redirection.io, please use the following commands:

1. Import the signature key:

   sudo rpm --import https://packages.redirection.io/gpg.key
   

2. Add our RPM repositories:

   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://packages.redirection.io/rpm/stable/2/any
   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://packages.redirection.io/rpm/stable/2/centos_9

3. Install redirection.io's agent and nginx module:

   sudo yum install redirectionio-agent
   sudo yum install libnginx-mod-redirectionio

4. reload the nginx service, for instance:

   sudo systemctl reload nginx
   

You're done! redirection.io is installed, up and running. You can go on with redirection.io's nginx configuration and should see some logs within minutes 🎉