on choosing your own shotened link

[alfonso]

Does this app provide for making personalized short urls? Let me
explain:
Everything we trade in our company gets an ID number, and we would
like to know if we can shorten something like this

http://www.erapanama.com/Home/tabid/102/Panama-Real-Estate/View/Property/4284/Playa-Blanca-Founders-Panama-Condo-for-Sale.aspx

into this:

http://www.erapanama.com/110418AVBC01

Is this possible?

[Jens Scheffler]

Hi,

Yes, that is actually the main purpose of the app. However, you would
probably need to use another subdomain for the short link, e.g.
http://goto.erapanama.com/110418AVBC01

Best regards,

Jens

On Jun 28, 7:37 am, alfonso <alfo...@properties-in-panama.com> wrote:
> Does this app provide for making personalized short urls? Let me
> explain:
> Everything we trade in our company gets an ID number, and we would
> like to know if we can shorten something like this
>

> http://www.erapanama.com/Home/tabid/102/Panama-Real-Estate/View/Prope...

[Bob Parker]

Actually, it could be done with the same domain, if you use an apache
server and some mod_rewrite magic :)

For example, in the apache config or .htaccess file in combination with an
actual short links subdomain setup as you described:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# assumes /whatever is the short-link
# change 301 to 302 for temporary redirect vs permanent
RewriteRule (.*) http://goto.erapanama.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I use something similar to this to allow for both base domain &
www.{domain} processing to work with short links when I don't use other
services on Google.

Bob Parker
b...@perldevgeek.com

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[Jorge Puente Sarrín]

Hi,

if you want to keep using your domain, I suggest you use 'lilurl' in a folder and customize it; for example using a folder named "go":

http://erapanama.com/go/110418AVBC01

Link: lilurl.sourceforge.net

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[Jorge Puente Sarrín]

Great contribution, Bob!

lilurl is useful if you want to avoid editing the file. htaccess and manage your short links in a database.

Anyway, I suspect that Alfonso is using IIS; and ISAPI_Rewrite would be very useful

* http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/

2011/6/28 Bob Parker <b...@perldevgeek.com>

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[Bob Parker]

From: Jorge Puente Sarrín <puente...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <google-apps-la...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:40:23 -0500
To: <google-apps-la...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Short Links Re: on choosing your own shotened link

Great contribution, Bob!

lilurl is useful if you want to avoid editing the file. htaccess and manage your short links in a database.

If using mod_rewrite (or ISAPI_Rewrite) you don't have to keep short links in a db. the First two RewriteCond lines check to see if the %{REQUEST_FILENAME} exists in the file path as either a file or directory. If not, then it's assumed to be a short link name, and the URL is redirected to the short link server.

I use this particular rewrite rule constantly, but in reverse, to pass through existing files but redirect non-existing files to an alternate location.

Anyway, I suspect that Alfonso is using IIS; and ISAPI_Rewrite would be very useful

* http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/

Bob Parker

b...@perldevgeek.com