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Aug 24, 2014, 6:05 AM

MJB

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Aug 24, 2014, 6:05 AM

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Need help redirecting domains but keeping extensions

Let me explain.

I have a short URL that I want to link to the regular URL and match the page linked.

For example, I'm trying to get:

shorturl.com/123.html
shorturl.com/<%ID%>.html

to (redirect, rewrite?) display the original URL like:

mywebsite/directoty/subdirectory/123.html
mywebsite/<%g%><%ID%>.html

I have tried the usual RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L] but it just results in /cgi-bin/links/page.cgi every time.

Aug 25, 2014, 6:40 AM

Andy

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Aug 25, 2014, 6:40 AM

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Hi,

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're trying to do? You want to create "short" URLs, which go to the full URL? Could you give a few more examples of what you're trying to do? Your example seems to be mixing both detailed pages, and categories :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 26, 2014, 3:57 AM

MJB

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Aug 26, 2014, 3:57 AM

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Yes, sorry, bad example that.

I have a short domain. I am using it for social media but I don't want it to resolve to the short domain when clicked. I only want it as a link to get to the full domain.

Is that any clearer?

Aug 26, 2014, 7:17 AM

Andy

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Aug 26, 2014, 7:17 AM

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Hi,

Right ok - so you basically want to let them send to foo.com/1234 , which would then lookup the correct URL for category 1234... and send them to the main site? Kinda like I do on my steampunk site:

http://steamp.co/s/G8NmD

Ya?

If so, what you need is a little script to pass it along to. For example:

Code:
RewriteRu[0-9]+0-9]+)$ /cgi-bin/gotocat.cgi?ID=$1  [R=301,L]

Then the script would take in the ID value, create a url using $DB->table("Category")->as_url( ID ) ... and then redirect them

I'm a bit busy with other work atm, but I'll see if I can knock up a simple script for you later today

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 26, 2014, 8:20 AM

MJB

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Aug 26, 2014, 8:20 AM

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Yes, that's what I'm trying to achieve.

I didn't realise it would involve creating a script though. I thought it might have just been a line that I needed to add to the .htaccess file.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Aug 26, 2014, 9:08 AM

Andy

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Aug 26, 2014, 9:08 AM

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Hi,

Ok, so this is totally untested Angelic

Call the script goshort.cgi, and put in the SHORT domain (not the main one).

Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 
    use strict; 
    use lib '/path/to/admin'; 
    use Links qw/$IN $DB $CFG $USER/; 
    use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); 

    local $SIG{__DIE__}  = \&Links::fatal; 

    Links::init('/path/to/admin'); 

# steamp.co/cgi-bin/rand=mn3Gl 

    # do this for mod_perl compatbility... 
    handle(); 

    sub handle { 

        if ($IN->param("ID") =~ /^\d+$/) { 

            my $rec = $DB->table("Category")->select( { ID => $IN->param("ID") })->fetchrow_hashref || {}; 

            if ($rec->{Name}) { 

                my $url = "$CFG->{build_root_url}/" . $DB->table("Category")->as_url( $rec->{Full_Name} ); 
                print "Location: $url\n\n"; 


            }  else { 
                print "Location: $CFG->{build_root_url}\n\n"; 
            }   
        } else { 
            print "Location: $CFG->{build_root_url}\n\n"; 
        } 

    }

Then also add this into the .htaccess for the SHORT domain:

Code:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /cgi-bin/goshort.cgi?ID=$1  [R=301,L]

The, call the short URLs as:

http://shortdomain.com/123

...and that should the pass to the script, which will then lookup the correct URL to 301 to.

Hope that works / helps Cool

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 26, 2014, 9:42 AM

MJB

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Aug 26, 2014, 9:42 AM

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Thanks Andy