Redirection service for the Node.js community

[Andrew Chilton]

Hi everyone,

I made a little redirect service for myself (usually just to redirect
www->non-www or the other way around) and thought it could be useful
for everyone. It's on Nodejitsu - which I thank them for - so give me
a pull request [1] with your domain info and I'll get your redirects
up usually within a day or so (I'll batch them to save myself some
time). Instructions on the site:

* http://redirects.jit.su/
* https://github.com/appsattic/redirects

Thanks to Nodejitsu for the service and for confirming to me that I
can map as many domains as I like to the same application.

Hope the service can be useful for you.

Cheers,
Andy

[1] Has to be a pull request since the domain will need to be in the
config file when deployed. Read the site for more details.

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[Nathan Rajlich]

Hey this is pretty cool! Had this been around a couple weeks ago I
probably would have used this instead of writing
https://github.com/TooTallNate/tootallnate.net/blob/master/server.js

Cheers!

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[Christian Tellnes]

I took it a little step further a few months ago. Instead of having to
configure the application to the domain is forwarded, I create a TXT
record in DNS.

https://github.com/tellnes/dhfr



2012/9/14 Nathan Rajlich <nat...@tootallnate.net>:

[Andrew Chilton]

Hey guys,

Thanks for the info. @Christian, that looks pretty cool. To be honest,
I could and should have done something like that, except since it's
hosted on Nodejitsu it needs to know which domains route to which apps
- therefore they need to be added in package.json. Apparently they are
looking at an API which can add domains, so once they've released
that, I'll make it a lot easier to add your own.

@Nathan: yeah, I used to have redirects in Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx and
sometimes Connect middlware to do them for me (depending on where my
sites were hosted) but I got tired of doing all that and just wanted
an easy solution. :) And one less thing to monitor!

Cheers,
Andy

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[henry.oswald]

Yes the comment is a bit off. However please remember what we and JS owe him from opening his mouth in the past. Attacking his age or past is uncalled for.

[Andrew Chilton]

Hi Phil,

On 16 September 2012 01:24, UnclePhil <koeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I write "rewriter" one year ago (but i push it to git today)
> https://github.com/UnclePhil/rewriter.git

Is this hosted anywhere that other people can use? The main point of
my service is not to solve how to do redirection (it's a pretty simple
solution), but to host redirection for other people who don't want to.

> It's in heavy production in a big web farm with more than 700 rewriting
> rules, and i never stopped the server

Sounds great. This is what Node.js is all about.

> Personally i prefer a config file in place of hardcoded rules.

Snap. All config is in redirects.js. This could have been a JSON file,
except I wanted to add comments into it so that people can see what
they need to do. :)

Cheers,
Andy

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[UnclePhil]

Nope, this is not a cloud service

Even if the sites are public, the service is (only) private and hosted
in a governemental data center
But this is my code an i offer it to the community
That's my way of work

But with a little bit coding, we can transform it in a cloud service
But you need also to maintain the ad-hoc Ddns


Ph koenig
Aka UnclePhil

On 16 sep, 04:02, Andrew Chilton <chi...@appsattic.com> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>

[Tom]

I've deployed a few very small scale websites all on one IP/VPS (right
now) using https://github.com/substack/mountie and adding a rule for
rerouting www was a breeze;

https://gist.github.com/49229e16fbe5c23d1e45