URL forwarding software for my website?

by wizzlesticks

Posted: 11 years ago 10 replies

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I just purchased a neat domain name that I want visitors to be able to use as a URL forwarding service. I plan to use this as a list builder.

E.G. They choose a string: myurl.com/any_text >> theirurl.com/affiliateid.etc

Any ideas where I can find this? (Yes, I did try Google!)

#forwarding #software #url #website

rhinocl 11 years ago

Go to the common forwarders like bit.ly and the Google one. Sometimes they will let you register and use their shortening/forwarding software on your site. I think the A reference of a domain has to be changed by your hosting company to make this work.
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David Beroff 11 years ago

See the bit.ly instructions for this.
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Paul Moss 11 years ago

I think what you are asking for is a bitly clone script?

bitly Clone Script
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- wizzlesticks 11 years ago
  
  Thanks, exactly what I needed!
  
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octalsoftware 11 years ago

namecheap
this is the beat for URL forwarding
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amcg 11 years ago

I'd say use your registrar but you have to be careful you are forwarding correctly. Frames are something in particular you need to avoid at all costs.
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- wizzlesticks 10 years ago
  
  I eventually got this set up. =)
  
  If anyone wants to use it: http://fwdme.info/
  
  Feedback welcome.
  
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  David Beroff 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by wizzlesticks
  
  If anyone wants to use it: http://fwdme.info
  
  The site doesn't load.
  
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  wizzlesticks 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by David Beroff
  
  The site doesn't load.
  
  Hmm, it loads for me. I tried two IPs as well... Though I did update the nameservers earlier today.
  
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  David Beroff 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by wizzlesticks
  
  Though I did update the nameservers earlier today.
  
  Well, that was most likely it, then. Unless you had both hosts running simultaneously, there's going to be a propagation delay.
  
  After a few hours, it did work.
  
  Without the leading "http://", the domain "AboutTh.is" yielded, "Invalid protocol!" You might consider pre-populating the field with "http://", or simply assuming it if it's not there.
  
  The correct URL "http://AboutTh.is" worked, yielding the longer URL, "http://fwdme.info//g". You might consider using the standard single slash after your domain instead of a double-slash (which still seems to work, but just doesn't look right).
  
  Finally, you might consider a slightly longer, more-random-appearing three or four characters (for starters) rather than just one, so as to reduce (but not eliminate) the risk of a robot crawling through your database.
  
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