My attempt at a url redirection service

[!ben]

Hi,

I just want some feedback on my attempt at url redirection site: http://www.lostworlds.net

I know it's a long domain name (it was just one I had spare!). As you can probably tell I'm using mydomain.com, since I don't currently use a host that offers wildcard dns entries.

Anyway please let me know what you think. Improvements, problems - all welcome.

Cheers,
Ben

[ccreighton]

Ben,

Looks like your on the right track. Best of luck on your redirect biz.

[Epgs]

yeah best of luck, let us know how it goes

[Omari]

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[keith]

doesn't seem to redirect, just shows your homepage, at least with the domain i registered. not trying to diss you, just making sure you get this started off on the right foot :cool:

[!ben]

it dosen't redirct your http://weezer.lostworlds.net because you entered index.shtml at the end of your url (try it now...) - this is something that needs checking for rather than just being a note on the signup page ;)

cheers for your help though!

as an aside, does anyone know of a cheap (or free - unlikely) host that offers wildcard dns and php support?

Ben

[Tobbe]

There are always http://www.digitalspace.net .
$3 / month + $5 setup for wildcard DNS.
Minimum 1 year. Thats a problem, cause they have had pretty terrible support some years ago. So I can't recommend them, but they are cheep.

/Tobbe

[keith]

oh yeah, i put the 'index.shtml' in there just to see how it would handle that [since you tell us not to ;)]... forget i said anything then. if wouldn't mind sending me the sourcecode, i'd be happy to help figure out allowing people to use whatever extensions they want.

wzr.net's script started out exactly that way [not working with file extensions], and i've hacked it so much, it's barely a discernable shell of the original. it didn't even allow true path-forwarding before i got my hands on it, now it's got just as many, if not more, features than a lot of pay scripts, including the go2cgi.com forward pro [which is 39 bucks]. even got path forwarding working for the unlimited amount of subdomains you're allowed set up [impressive to me at least, since i had no perl/cgi knowledge whatsoever, prior to starting up wzr.net. all the cgi buffs out there probably wouldn't give it a second thought].

just an offer...

[!ben]

thanks for the offer :) - however i've made some changes to check if a specific file has been referenced (please try it out).

if any one has good knowledge of ereg() or any other way of checking if a file has been specified at the end of a url, that would be helpful. (currently i just check if the string ends in .htm .html etc - so this doesn't pick up all file types or any that include queries i.e. file.php?var=whatever)

Ben

btw path forwarding is supported ;) - sub subdomains is the next step

[keith]

then go to work on user-defined titles and meta tags, hehe