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  • Sean Dooley 273 posts 490 karma points
    Jan 20, 2016 @ 10:14
    Sean Dooley
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    URL shortener with same domain

    I'm looking into creating a shortened URL functionality as shown below

    One idea I have is to create redirect pages using umbracoRedirect. This would mean creating a separate redirect page for each page - not ideal.

    Another idea would be to generate a shortened URL when a node is first published and store it in a Document Type property the user couldn't edit. What I'm not sure of is how to hijack the route so that something like http://www.domain.com/9a8eed8c would work.

    Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Samira 113 posts 450 karma points
    Jan 20, 2016 @ 10:31
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    Hi

    Please refer to the following link:

    https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/routing/feedback/61218-Short-Urls

    hope this help

    Regards,

    Samira

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  • Paul Seal 428 posts 2354 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Jan 21, 2016 @ 18:33
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    My article tells you how to do this really easily.

    http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/create-a-redirect-page-in-umbraco-without-editing-the-config-file/

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  • Sean Dooley 273 posts 490 karma points
    Jan 27, 2016 @ 10:10
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    Thanks for the input Paul, I was hoping to hijack the route rather then create lots of redirect pages.

    This would be a good fallback idea though.

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  • Nik 1413 posts 6212 karma points MVP 3x c-trib
    Jan 27, 2016 @ 10:14
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    Hi Sean,

    Why don't you create one redirect page that effectively uses a lookup to perform the redirect.

    You could base this on the parameter being passed in as part of the URL, then you just need to maintain a master list of Shortened -> Long Urls.

    You could do this in a controller, so there isn't a page but simply a controller level redirect.

    Nik

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  • Sean Dooley 273 posts 490 karma points
    Jan 27, 2016 @ 12:51
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    Hi Nik

    I'm looking to implement this in a controller and trying to find an example of how best to do this.

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