DIY Tiny URL?

[David Segall]

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible but don't want to use
<http://tinyurl.com/>. I would prefer to put the ultimate location for
all the likely places on one html page. Ideally it the link would be
something like "mystite.com#gohere". Any suggestions?

 

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yes I think theres a way for you and that would be mod_rewrite usin
php

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[Blinky the Shark]

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible but don't want to use
<http://tinyurl.com/>. I would prefer to put the ultimate location for
all the likely places on one html page. Ideally it the link would be
something like "mystite.com#gohere". Any suggestions?

I don't know if this is useful for you, but if you register at
http://snipurl.com, you can name your shortened links (and they're saved
in your account, where you can see hit stats, change the name, etc.).

So you could have:

http://snipurl.com/davids_cats
http://snipurl.com/davids_poetry
http://snipurl.com/davids_porn

....and so on. Tinyurl domain, but with your custom names.

Reg is free and not invasive, and I've never seen any spam from them.

It's a nice service.

 

[Dan]

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible but don't want to use
<http://tinyurl.com/>. I would prefer to put the ultimate location for
all the likely places on one html page. Ideally it the link would be
something like "mystite.com#gohere". Any suggestions?

With hosting providers that let you create unlimited subdomains with
redirects (Dreamhost does, for instance) you can set up
link1.example.net, link2.example.net, and so on. Or, as somebody else
suggested, you can do path-based redirects from example.net/link1,
etc., using a .htaccess file (if it's an Apache server).

 

[Rob McAninch]

David Segall>:

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible [...] Any suggestions?

Well if you do this with a lot of links. Run them through a database.

e.g. example.com/link?0001

Where 0001 gets looked up in a database for its actual location. You
could do it with Perl/PHP and MySQL or perhaps a simpler database or
even a flat text file (but I'd look into using the Perl DBI from the
beginning so you have room to grow from a text file to a RDBMS.

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible but don't want to use
<http://tinyurl.com/>. I would prefer to put the ultimate location for
all the likely places on one html page. Ideally it the link would be
something like "mystite.com#gohere". Any suggestions?

If your website is hosted on an apache server, you could put lines like

Redirect /shorturl http://www.example.org/this/is/the/long/url.html

into you're .htaccess file.

 

[David Segall]

If your website is hosted on an apache server, you could put lines like

Redirect /shorturl http://www.example.org/this/is/the/long/url.html

into you're .htaccess file.

It's actually a Tomcat server. Is there an equivalent?

 

[David Segall]

With hosting providers that let you create unlimited subdomains with
redirects (Dreamhost does, for instance) you can set up
link1.example.net, link2.example.net, and so on.

Thanks Dan, this works for me. I'm actually using ZoneEdit
<http://www.zonedit.com/> because I don't have a fixed IP address and
because it is free. I had already taken advantage of it's email
forwarding but you inspired me to check it's subdomain forwarding.

Or, as somebody else
suggested, you can do path-based redirects from example.net/link1,
etc., using a .htaccess file (if it's an Apache server).

I'm using Tomcat. I'll check out their options.

 

[Vhit]

<alt.html , Rob McAninch , (e-mail address removed)>
<[email protected]>

I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
like to make it as short as possible [...] Any suggestions?

Well if you do this with a lot of links. Run them through a database.

e.g. example.com/link?0001

Where 0001 gets looked up in a database for its actual location. You
could do it with Perl/PHP and MySQL or perhaps a simpler database or
even a flat text file

(below) I started at 1000000 and used flatfiles .

Its not a high traffic website and no need to use mysql at this stage .

 

[Rob McAninch]

David Segall>:

It's actually a Tomcat server. Is there an equivalent?

RTM http://tomcat.apache.org/

Without knowing the version I can't be specific.