Posted by David Segall on 12/28/05 18:14

"Dan" <dan@tobias.name> wrote:

>David Segall wrote:
>> I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
>> like to make it as short as possible but don't want to use
>> <http://tinyurl.com/>. I would prefer to put the ultimate location for
>> all the likely places on one html page. Ideally it the link would be
>> something like "mystite.com#gohere". Any suggestions?
>
>With hosting providers that let you create unlimited subdomains with
>redirects (Dreamhost does, for instance) you can set up
>link1.example.net, link2.example.net, and so on.
Thanks Dan, this works for me. I'm actually using ZoneEdit
<http://www.zonedit.com/> because I don't have a fixed IP address and
because it is free. I had already taken advantage of it's email
forwarding but you inspired me to check it's subdomain forwarding.
> Or, as somebody else
>suggested, you can do path-based redirects from example.net/link1,
>etc., using a .htaccess file (if it's an Apache server).
I'm using Tomcat. I'll check out their options.

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