Comments on: Friendly Social URLs Using Redirects http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/ Jamie Thingelstad's personal blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jamie Thingelstad http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1644 Jamie Thingelstad Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:42:06 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1644 I had actually grabbed that a while back myself and have http://profile.to/thingles/ but I never, never use it. Something about that profile.to business. Call me old fashioned, but I still like good old .com addresses. :-) I had actually grabbed that a while back myself and have

http://profile.to/thingles/

but I never, never use it. Something about that profile.to business. Call me old fashioned, but I still like good old .com addresses. :-)

]]> By: Hadar Pedhazur http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1643 Hadar Pedhazur Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:30:12 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1643 For people who don't host their own sites, here's a potentially cool service (I haven't dug in, so I don't know what their specific angle is!): http://apps.facebook.com/webaddress/ For people who don’t host their own sites, here’s a potentially cool service (I haven’t dug in, so I don’t know what their specific angle is!):

http://apps.facebook.com/webaddress/

]]> By: Jamie Thingelstad http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1642 Jamie Thingelstad Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:30:37 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1642 Thanks. I just added another one, github.thingelstad.com. Thanks.

I just added another one, github.thingelstad.com.

]]> By: Aaron Oliver http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1641 Aaron Oliver Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:28:29 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1641 Cool idea. Cool idea.

]]> By: Hadar Pedhazur http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1640 Hadar Pedhazur Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:19:17 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1640 Aww, shucks. Now you've made me go and implement something that likely no one will ever click on anyway, and it was a few lines trickier than yours, since I run my own server (including DNS). For people to get to my profile (which will do them no good, since I don't publicize anything to non-friends), you can now visit: http://facebook.opticality.com/ or http://facebook.pedhazur.com/ On your own server (meaning _my_ own server), it's a two step process: 1) Set up a CNAME or A record for the "facebook" sub-domain (assuming you aren't using wildcard domains). 2) Put in a rewrite rule for that sub-domain to your Facebook URL. For me, that meant adding a tiny "if" block for my http server, which is NginX. Doing it for Apache is just as easy, but the placement and syntax is different. Thanks again Jamie! :-) Aww, shucks. Now you’ve made me go and implement something that likely no one will ever click on anyway, and it was a few lines trickier than yours, since I run my own server (including DNS).

For people to get to my profile (which will do them no good, since I don’t publicize anything to non-friends), you can now visit:

http://facebook.opticality.com/
or
http://facebook.pedhazur.com/

On your own server (meaning _my_ own server), it’s a two step process:

1) Set up a CNAME or A record for the “facebook” sub-domain (assuming you aren’t using wildcard domains).

2) Put in a rewrite rule for that sub-domain to your Facebook URL. For me, that meant adding a tiny “if” block for my http server, which is NginX. Doing it for Apache is just as easy, but the placement and syntax is different.

Thanks again Jamie! :-)

]]> By: Jamie Thingelstad http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1639 Jamie Thingelstad Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:52:50 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1639 Hadar, Having you qualify something as "_very_" clever pretty much makes my day -- and weekend. :-) Hadar,

Having you qualify something as “_very_” clever pretty much makes my day — and weekend. :-)

]]> By: Hadar Pedhazur http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1638 Hadar Pedhazur Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:28:58 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1638 Damn, that's _very_ clever. I may just have to implement that, just for fun, even though I don't tend to get asked for my information much. ;-) Damn, that’s _very_ clever. I may just have to implement that, just for fun, even though I don’t tend to get asked for my information much. ;-)

]]> By: BeckBlog : Go Daddy Subdomain Redirects http://thingelstad.com/friendly-social-urls-using-redirects/#comment-1637 BeckBlog : Go Daddy Subdomain Redirects Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:15:36 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/?p=1949#comment-1637 [...] seeing this great post from Jamie Thingelstad about using subdomains to redirect people to your LinkedIn or Twitter [...] [...] seeing this great post from Jamie Thingelstad about using subdomains to redirect people to your LinkedIn or Twitter [...]

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