I'd like to run my own URL shortener. I could roll my own, but my coding skills are ... primitive. Does anyone have a package for this out there that they like? I have mysql on the server I'd like to run it on, and both perl and php. Probably python, too, but I'm python-illiterate (for now - of course, this could be a good project to ramp up on python...) Thanks!
posted by rmd1023
on Mar 20, 2013 -
11 answers
I have a domain, myname.com, that I want to have forwarded to my Google Sites webpage. My old domain company did it for free but now that I signed with register.com they want either a fee to do it or I have to accept their annoying banner ad. How do I get around this?
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posted by nestor_makhno
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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If i assign a domain name to blogspot.com something is it permanent or can i reassign it?
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posted by maiamaia
on Dec 2, 2012 -
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For sake of discussion, let's say that I am an expert on "widgets". Particularly, I review a lot of reports about widgets for my word-of-mouth consulting business. This is a side business - - by day I work in the public sector - - in the widget business. Approximately 6 years ago I purchased the domain "widget review.com" with the hope of using it as I neared retirement and transitioned to a full time consulting role with a full fledged website. Well... In the interim time, another expert in the widget field has had a consulting business and a website named "widget review.org" I know you are not my lawyer, but might I run into some sort of legal trouble when I bring my website online... even if I owned the dot com url first? To be clear, my competitor and I provide the exact same service. I am also operating under the assumption that he probably looked for the dotcom version of the url, but since I owned it, optioned to the dotorg version.
posted by teg4rvn
on Oct 9, 2012 -
12 answers
There must be a tool for this: I want to copy text from a web page, then paste into in a word processing document, with the URL of the original page somehow appended to the text--say, in parenthesis at the end. Any suggestions?
posted by largecorp
on Sep 11, 2012 -
10 answers
I want to have a large number of unique URLs, all pointing to the same content. Like a million of 'em, so we can track individual recipients' behaviors online; one URL (or set of related URLs) per recipient (say we're sending them an email or a postcard with a QR code).
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posted by Mister_A
on Aug 28, 2012 -
3 answers
Question about nearly-identical Wordpress sites hosted at different URLS and Google indexing/rankings.
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posted by cilantro
on Jul 10, 2012 -
5 answers
Is there a Firefox extension or something that will change Outbrain links into the regular links they appear to be when you first mouse over them?
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posted by straight
on May 10, 2012 -
5 answers
Emails containing a certain domain name are going missing. How can we fix this now and prevent it in the future?
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posted by ssg
on Jan 17, 2012 -
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Is there a way to discover the destination URL that one gets by clicking a Javascript button?
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posted by Mo Nickels
on Dec 10, 2011 -
11 answers
Some friends and I are creating a small creative consulting group. Our skills are pretty diverse- environmental, web development, musical transcription/composition. We are trying to come up with an easy to remember name that is vague enough to cover all of what we do (with available .com URL) and drawing blanks. Any suggestions of names?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 6, 2011 -
18 answers
How can I set URL forwarding to get a second domain name to point to a subpage of my Drupal site?
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posted by msalt
on Jul 2, 2011 -
3 answers
How do I create a custom bit.ly-like short URL service in the same directory as a WordPress installation?
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posted by joshrholloway
on Jun 15, 2011 -
5 answers
In Firefox I can easily find a site I've already visited by typing part of the URL and I get a list of URLs containing that string in a dropdown beneath the address. Can I get Chrome to do this?
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posted by jontyjago
on Jun 9, 2011 -
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How do I change our wiki URL from www.name:port to www.name:port/wiki (where 'name' is the name of our support portal)?
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posted by methroach
on Apr 8, 2011 -
7 answers
Using FireFox, can I search the link text (the URL) on a given page instead of the anchor text?
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posted by BeerFilter
on Mar 12, 2011 -
7 answers
Client requested a single page website. Same client has bought himself a shiny new domain name - www.client.com. Given likely very low volume of hits, I propose hosting that single page under my existing Apache-enabled webspace - www.existing.com/client. How do I set things up such that Google results show client's domain and not my own? Thanks!
posted by freston
on Feb 16, 2011 -
12 answers
The name is at nearlyfreespeech.net. The content is on Google Sites. Let’s try to bridge that divide.
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posted by him
on Sep 13, 2010 -
4 answers
How do I refresh someone else's IP? I can't load a specific site I usually access every day when I am connected to my home ISP, although I can get to the site when I'm at work and on my smartphone. Absolutely NONE of my browsers can load the site, even those which I've never uised to visit the site before. When I contacted my ISP tonight, the tech said that he could access the same site from his computer, so it doesn't appear to be a DNS issue there. I have no problems loading any other sites on my browsers. What gives?
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posted by The True Wheel
on Sep 9, 2010 -
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One of my clients was purchased by their competitor. It was a surprise. That (now former) client is is overdue on multiple invoices to me/my company. Kiss the money goodbye, right? Normally yes, but I own my former client's domain name, and have been hosting it. How do I come up with a number for how much the URL is worth, when "globally" it's not worth much, but regionally and within the industry, it is very identifiable?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 21, 2010 -
14 answers
How can I link my domain URL (www.domain.com) to a static homepage on Wordpress. Please don't say "change the reading setting", because that totally doesn't work.
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posted by joyeuxamelie
on Mar 16, 2010 -
7 answers
What are best enterprise level Web Analytic / Stat programs that work with IIS and Apache sever logs?
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posted by wcfields
on Mar 10, 2010 -
1 answer
I'm having a lot of difficulty explaining my question properly, but is there a program that organizes files in a URL and IP address format? As opposed to a strict tree structure? That way, I am not limited to a hierarchical structure and linked files would always remain linked, no matter where it is located.
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posted by JiffyQ
on Feb 19, 2010 -
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I'm about to ask a potentially goofy question about serving unique URLs. This is something I should know, but- How do I serve a unique URL based on a common PHP script where the URL is distinguished by a unique ID?
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posted by GilloD
on Feb 10, 2010 -
7 answers
What cool things can I do with SIP URIs and/or DNS SRV records regarding SIP? I have my own domain, DNS, and I have a VoIP service.
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posted by odinsdream
on Jan 22, 2010 -
2 answers
Why does Google Alerts add stuff like this to the end of the URLs it sends me every day by email:
&ct=ga&cd=eOGlPN9EEgs&usg=AFNjCNGPR1lLrp7KJVpHt-2HktLYhtBMQg
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posted by londongeezer
on Nov 8, 2009 -
5 answers
Remove these crappy ultra-long links from my Google Search Results when I right-click!
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posted by cashman
on Nov 5, 2009 -
5 answers
One business + two Flickr accounts + lots of Google recognition = one frustrated business owner. Help me decide which Flickr account to use, or if I should delete both and start over.
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posted by Ann Onymous
on Sep 30, 2009 -
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I need to send a link in an email which on the other end will create a favourite in in the recipients IE. I've googled around this and found lots of resources on adding a favourite from a website but they all seem to assume the recipient is on the right page already. I'm using Outlook 2007 if it's relevant.
(Bit dull as a question I know but I've been wrestling with this all morning)
posted by eb98jdb
on Sep 11, 2009 -
8 answers
My site is getting a lot of weirdly-formed referring URLs--some with two or three URLs linked with commas--or URLs that do not appear to contain links to my site. What's going on?
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posted by mattdidthat
on Aug 11, 2009 -
6 answers
I have been getting weird Wordpress referrer spam the last 4 days, but there are no injections or anything of the like on my site.
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posted by tip120
on Aug 5, 2009 -
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