By danny englander on

We just launched a short URL site made with Drupal. We are using Shorten and Short URL modules as well as aggregator to bring in the Twitter Drupal feed. The theme is Admire Grunge.

This was just a fun thing to do in a few hours of free time! Enjoy!

Link: http://go2.tc

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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Yourband commented

link?

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danny englander
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Yes, that would help, thanks. (edited post, now with link)

Danny Englander | Twitter | Instagram

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ravis commented

I love it....
Simple and working perfectly.

I world suggest you to use a better and simple theme.

I work at Drupar.com

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marknewlyn commented

Hi there

I'm trying to do something similar and was wondering if you'd just share how the actual redirect bit works. I've got some textbooks and we're using a a drupal site with the same modules and we want to put a code next to each question - then the kids can navigate to www.fhsst.org/answer/XXXXX and it'll redirect them to the appropriate model solution on www.fullmarks.org.za

I've setup ShortURL and Shorten and can get all my shortened urls no problem but I'm not sure where to configure how /answer/XXXX gets processed so that it actually makes the redirect work from my site?

Please would you point me in the right direction? The documentation makes it sound like it should just work - but it doesn't?

Thanks

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danny englander
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Hi Mark:

I am not sure I totally undertand what you are trying to do. It actually seems like your use case is completely different than mine. I'd like to try to help so if you could give me a little more specific detail. Thanks, Danny.

Danny Englander | Twitter | Instagram

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marknewlyn commented

Hi Danny

Thanks - ok here goes:

1) I've got a site we use to write some books - drupal site - www.fhsst.org - the books actually get printed
2) We've got another site www.fullmarks.org.za - we're putting models solutions on that site and we wanted to include links in the books but the urls are WAY too long
3) We thought about a url shortener service but weren't sure about the permanence etc. so we though lets just have our own on the book domain www.fhsst.org
4) I installed shorturl and shorten as modules on www.fhsst.org and configure the base domain for the short url's to be www.fhsst.org/answer (I've got clean urls turned on) and configure shorten to use the local shorturl module - so now when I type in a long fullmarks url I get something like www.fhsst.org/answer/XXXXX
5) We want to include the appropriate XXXXX in the books with the questions so students can look up answers online - so in the book we'll have something like
Solve of x: x^2 +x +3 = 7 [XXXXXX]
Solve of x: x^2 +x +3 = -7 [YYYYYY]
etc.
6) Then the kids navigate to www.fhsst.org/answer/XXXXX or YYYYYY and they get the full model solution on FullMarks

So now I've got the shorten page where I generate the www.fhsst.org/answer/XXXXX links - but how do I make them actually work. If you type that url in you don't get redirected anywhere it just says page doesn't exist?

I figured something should be making a menu-type link thing for every one of the urls?

Thats probably not a clearer question but maybe you can see what I want to end up with?

Thanks

Mark

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marknewlyn commented

Hi Danny

I've been looking more and it seems that the "answer" bit is the problem - if I leave it out it it works. Seems like the prefix is a feature request:
http://drupal.org/node/823962

I'll add my weight to that request with a link to these comments.

Thanks

Mark