External Redirects via URL aliasing

By Adam Mordecai@www.musicforamerica.org on 1 Jul 2004 at 06:23 UTC

how can I get a url alias to redirect to an outside site? i.e.

www.mysite.com/goto

redirects to

www.yoursite.com

It currently doesn't seem to work on my site. Arg.

Comments

more information please.

Bèr Kessels commented 1 July 2004 at 08:45

Please give some more information.

What module do you use for the goto? What server are you using (IIS has some problems with redirecting, very often). Or do you wnat to add a simple url in your page?

*** please ignore this post. I did not read the words "url aliassing"***

[Ber | webschuur.com]

use http://

Bèr Kessels commented 1 July 2004 at 08:47

I am not sure if this is possible at all, but you might wnat to try using the url with http:// in front of it. Drupal uses a base url. So all urls that do not start with http:// are appended to the sites base url.

[Ber | webschuur.com]

apache redirect

matt westgate commented 1 July 2004 at 12:34

The path module only aliases internal Drupal URLs. You're better off using an apache redirect in your .htaccess file:

Redirect permanent /goto http://www.yoursite.com

I thought I saw a module for this

AlanT commented 17 August 2006 at 16:25

In the spirit of keeping the forums organized, I'm adding to this old thread since it directly relates to my question.

I also need this functionality, where I can define a clean URL on my site to point to an affiliate link on another website.

For instance, I want to be able to create links such as

http://www.mysite.com/affiliateproduct

that automatically redirects the visitor to

http://www.affiliatesite.com/affiliatetracker.php?affcode=whatever

while tracking the number of times the URL is accessed, so that I can pull a report on all URL aliases and the number of clicks they've received.

I thought I saw a module that does this, but I'm having trouble finding it again. How can this be done?

- Alan Tutt
http://www.PowerKeysPub.com

- Alan Tutt

Exceptional Personal Development for Exceptional People
http://www.PowerKeysPub.com

The answer is to ....

AlanT commented 20 August 2006 at 02:35

I found the answer to this question, so I figured I should post the result for others to find.

It's a combination of 2 modules, actually. The first module is the Gotwo module, which will allow you to create links such as

http://www.mysite.com/go/linkcode => redirects to http://www.yoursite.com/aff.php?affcode=whatever

From there, you can use the Path module to redefine the alias of the link to get rid of the /go/ portion, so the final link looks like

http://www.mysite.com/linkcode => redirects to http://www.yoursite.com/aff.php?affcode=whatever

While it would be nice to have this all in one place, being able to do it in 2 modules is at least a plus.

For future reference to developers, the tracking stats in the Gotwo module are extremely basic and I'd like to be able to classify the reports through the taxonomy system. That way, I can get a report on how many clicks went to "Category1" type of affiliate programs versus "Category2" type of affiliate programs, and run another report on how many clicks came from ebooks versus on-site links.

- Alan Tutt
http://www.PowerKeysPub.com

- Alan Tutt

Exceptional Personal Development for Exceptional People
http://www.PowerKeysPub.com