Redirect Service creating!

[Anayet]

Is it possible to create a redirect service like V3.com with any scripts that are freely available?

Or does V3.com make subdomains manually?

Thanks

[LastActionHero]

Yes it is possible. Take a look at hoscripts.com and cgi.resourceindex.com for such scripts. Your host must have enabled wild cards for your domain name.

[Dusty]

V3 does subdirectory, not subdomain, redirection. You don't need wildcards enabled to run a subdirectory redirection service. Other than that, what Lastactionhero said is true. RedirectLite, an old program in desperate need of a re-write that I give away, does that.

(Lastactionhero: I think you mean hotscripts, not hoscripts)

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by Dusty
V3 does subdirectory, not subdomain, redirection. You don't need wildcards enabled to run a subdirectory redirection service. Other than that, what Lastactionhero said is true. RedirectLite, an old program in desperate need of a re-write that I give away, does that.

(Lastactionhero: I think you mean hotscripts, not hoscripts)

:o A typo. :)

BTW how is sub-dir redirection done?

[LastActionHero]

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[Anayet]

Dusty, can you email me the program or give me a link to the file? Thanks

And by the way, are there any scripts, that allow to create a V3.com type service, with sub directories (not subdomains:D)

Which allow all the features like v3.com, such as members editing there own settings and stuff????

Thanks

[niv]

Originally posted by lastactionhero
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i heard something about something called lighting redirection? :confused:

dunno. i know there's a script called truevirtual that uses Perl and mySQL to redirect (only the main page). all you need is a host with unlimited subdomains and that'll work as well.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by needcgispace


i heard something about something called lighting redirection? :confused:

dunno. i know there's a script called truevirtual that uses Perl and mySQL to redirect (only the main page). all you need is a host with unlimited subdomains and that'll work as well.


Yeah truevirtual it is. Nice script but your host must have wild cards enabled.

[!ben]

Originally posted by lastactionhero
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You most likely have your 404 page directed to the index page then break down the referring url to get the user name...

Or create a new directory and index page for each user...

[Dusty]

You most likely have your 404 page directed to the index page then break down the referring url to get the user name...
Or create a new directory and index page for each user...Or you could get clever and rewrite Apache so that it takes the subdirectory and treats it as the query string on an index.pl page. Of course, that's the hard way. The easiest solution is just create a directory with an index file containing either a hidden frame or META refresh.

http://www.go2cgi.com/free/redirectlite.shtml is the URL to the free RedirectLite, the more featured RedirectPro: The PHP Edition is at http://www.go2php.com/phpredirect/, but it's not free.


i heard something about something called lighting redirection?Last time I checked that was a subdomain redirection script, not subdirectory like Anayet wants.


all you need is a host with unlimited subdomains and that'll work as well.Not just unlimited subdomains, your host could offer you unlimited subdomains and the script still not work. Your domain needs to be wildcarded in your DNS (referenced as *.domain.com instead of www.domain.com). While that does give you unlimited subdomains, that may not be what the host means when they say "unlimited subdomains".