Local URL Redirector

Question

Is a free/open source software available where I can create simple aliases that will redirect to different servers? For example, if I were to type: "http://go/wp" it would redirect me to server1.mydomain.com?

Sort of like tinyurl I guess. But simpler. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

I usually do this on my site in this way: forward example.com/go/superuser to superuser.com

1. set up a dir on my site: such as go/super on example.com

2. under super user, create index.php like this

<?php
// If use Permanent 301 redirection:
// header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
$url = "http://superuser.com";
$default_referer = "http://fclose.com/b/";
$referer = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ? $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] : $default_referer;
// 302 redirect:
header("Referer: " . $referer);
header("Location: " . $url);
exit();
?>

This method requires you to write some code and create directory on server each time you want to add a short URL. But it is easy and fast.

Answer 2

Firefox natively support this: Add a keyword to a bookmark and typing that keyword will open the bookmark. OS-wide, you could presumably put 'go' in your hosts file as 127.0.0.1, set up an http server, and use the url to force the desired redirect to the browser. But as a self-contained package, I don't know of one.