{"id":65,"date":"2010-01-20T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/techblog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-01-23T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:45:54","slug":"using-self-hosted-url-shortener-yourls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/hosted-web\/using-self-hosted-url-shortener-yourls\/","title":{"rendered":"Using self-hosted URL shortener YOURLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/h3>\n

This works better:
\n[cclN_php]define(‘YOURLS_SITE’, ‘http:\/\/’ . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’]);[\/cclN_php]
\nassuming yourls is installed in the root directory of your web site (http:\/\/foo.bar.com\/<\/code> for example). If otherwise (http:\/\/foo.bar.com\/yourls\/<\/code>) you’d want:
\n[cclN_php]define(‘YOURLS_SITE’, ‘http:\/\/’ . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] . ‘\/yourls’);[\/cclN_php]<\/p>\n

Original Post<\/h3>\n

I’m now using Shorten2Ping<\/a> to get my post updates from my blogs to Ping.FM (from which it goes to LinkedIn<\/a>, Identi.ca<\/a> and army.twit.tv<\/a>).<\/p>\n

While setting this up, I noticed that there’s an option for a self-hosted URL shortener called YOURLS<\/a>. This thing rocks! It shortens URL’s, collects statistics, and allows custom shortened URL’s.<\/p>\n

I wanted to use the same install (database etc) across all my blogs (poojanblog.com, www.circuitdesign.info, tech.poojanblog.com). WebFaction makes doing so very easy: you can tie any subdirectory of a domain to a specific “web app” (UNIX directory). So, for example, both poojanblog.com\/u and www.circuitdesign.info\/u point to the same directory on my web host.<\/p>\n

The only issue with this is that YOURLS returns one and only one domain for the shortened URL, set by a PHP define for YOURLS_SITE in includes\/config.php.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I found a way around this. I put the following in config.php:<\/p>\n

[cclN_php]define(‘YOURLS_SITE’, dirname($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])); \/\/ LOL. Wild guess.[\/cclN_php]<\/p>\n

This happens to be taken from includes\/load-yourls.php<\/code> as a fall-back if the YOURLS_SITE isn’t defined. Basically, it picks up the domain name from the HTTP header.<\/p>\n