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Whoops: rwURL was messed up

My fun url-shortening & tagging web app has been malfunctioning without my knowledge for a few days after a server migration changed some PHP parameters on me (damn autoglobals).

Anyway, rwURL is now running properly again at rwurl.com, so happy url-shrinking.

(You can read about it in depth in my original post here)

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rwURL - “real world URL’s” = tinyURL+

Over the last few evenings, between renovation tasks, I’ve been putting together a feature-enhanced version of the “tinyURL” concept. You can find it at rwURL.com - “real world URL’s” is the tagline.

I built it because (a) I wanted to be able to choose my own short version URL’s, and (b) I wanted to be able to manage/update them over time, and (c) I wanted to track click-through volume on each of them. rwURL enables all of these features.

Other than that, it works the same way as tinyURL, replace long URL’s with short ones. Instead of a random alphanumeric string though, you supply your own short form. For example:

rwurl.com/dtd

I got tired of remembering how many d’s “handdrawngames” was supposed to have when trying to get to Desktop Tower Defence. So, I created an rwurl for it, at “dtd.” Short, sweet, easy to recall.

Additionally, if anyone else creates an rwurl for “http://handdrawngames.com/desktoptd/game.asp,” they’re given the option to use the “dtd” shortcut as opposed to creating their own redundant one.

Big thanks to To TinyURL - who pioneered the link shortening concept. All I’ve done is wrap some more flexibility, that I wanted for my own use, around the very simple, streamlined, awesome TinyURL service.

Also, thanks to JpMaster77 - for your great PHP tutorials.

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