Comments on: Tutorial: How To Create Your Own URL Shortener

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By: Serviciu de prescurtare link-uri pe domeniu propriu de la Google Apps . Studiu de caz: 3ner.ro | Auras. Onlineing

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:34:10 +0000

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By: Pawel

Pawel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:53:12 +0000

$_SERVER['URL']; will not do the job (well for me didnt!)

Here is the script to get the current url:
http://www.pawelmartuszewski.co.uk/web_design_articles/web-design/how-to-get-the-current-page-url/

By: URL-Shortener-Skripte | datenstreifen.org

URL-Shortener-Skripte | datenstreifen.org — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:15:34 +0000

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By: J.J.

J.J. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:26:44 +0000

I’ve been looking for a simple way to do this for awhile, even for just shortening our post links on our site. Now our URLs on Twitter look a lot less garbled. Thanks for the post.

By: Adrian Kosmaczewski

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:36:42 +0000

I’ve written my own URL shortener, as a Rails app,
http://url.akosma.com/
and released it as open source code (BSD license):
http://github.com/akosma/cortito/
Enjoy!

By: winmonaye

winmonaye — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:17:28 +0000

Here is another hosted app to shorten URL for own domain.
http://get-shorty.com/

By: Sharif Khan

Sharif Khan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:09:06 +0000

I like to use http://l4u.in
It gives short domains rather than /something.
It also gives me statistics of total clicks. Great short URL service to use.

I suggest to this article’s author to add this link as url shorten in this article :)
Features:

Visit http://l4u.in to create shortened/redirected URLs to any long URL.
# AJAX interface;
# Bulk URL shortening;
# Password-protected URLs;
# Temporary URLs;
# Custom tags;
# Custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on);
# Redirects statistic – referer domain, referer page, visitor’s IP (+ link to geographical information about each visitor), date;
# URLs and hits statistics can be seen even without registration (IP-based authorization);
# Registered users: edit/delete URLs;
# Mass upload URLs from file;
# Export links to CSV file;

Thanks

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:21:30 +0000

I don’t think redirecting from a 404 is a good idea – in fact you can’t do it if you’re using Nginx as your server software. Wouldn’t it be better to just have a page or subdomain set up specifically for short urls? e.g. http://s.sean-o.com/short-URL or http://sean-o.com/s/short-URL

By: Nicolas Hoizey

Nicolas Hoizey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:14 +0000

You could also just install http://cas.im/ir/ … ;-)

By: URL-Shortener für den eigenen Webspace | Links, Scripts, Tools, URLs | Dr. Web Magazin

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:33:16 +0000

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By: seano

seano — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:16:03 +0000

Henrik, I haven’t tested the script with sub-domains. Perhaps this article might be of assistance to you?
http://help.godaddy.com/article/3352