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YOURLS Is Mine

Finally! My own URL shortener based on YOURLS is working. While the URL shortener market is already full, why not make a custom vanity URL shortener just for fun? That’s the reason for pulp.ly! Just for fun.

Took some (unneeded) effort to launch pulp.ly, but it was a learning experience. Thanks to @mirthlab for the recommendation and thanks to @ryankanno for the tech translation and guidance.

Here’s a rundown of some of the issues I encountered in case you want to set up YOURLS.

Be sure you can read the instructions.

Don’t necessarily use the latest version of the software. I installed version 1.3RC, instead of the stable 1.2. There was no htaccess file included in 1.3 which caused problems. I thought it was this issue, but it simply was not having an htaccess file that looks like this. Update: as Ozh himself points out, there is an included .htaccess file, but Mac OS X users don’t see (and hence copy) this hidden file.  Use something like TinkerTool or xMod.

Once the YOURLS installation was working, integrating it with its companion WordPress plugin took some guessing. I guessed wrong and specified a remote YOURLS installation. Changing the installation type to local did the trick.

So if everything is indeed working right, this post should be shortened with a pulp.ly link then tweeted.

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5 Comments

  1. Ozh
    September 5, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

    There’s totally an .htaccess in the install. It’s just that OSX users seem to not see it.

    Don’t forget to turn Twitterfeed off now 🙂

    • Gee Why
      September 5, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

      Thanks for the info. Must be the hidden nature of the dot htaccess file that confuses OSX (I’ll amend my post). But thanks to your great support area, I was able to recover.

      Thanks for creating a great product!

  2. Ozh
    September 5, 2009 @ 2:30 am

    There’s totally an .htaccess in the install. It’s just that OSX users seem to not see it.

    Don’t forget to turn Twitterfeed off now 🙂

    • Gee Why
      September 5, 2009 @ 6:15 am

      Thanks for the info. Must be the hidden nature of the dot htaccess file that confuses OSX (I’ll amend my post). But thanks to your great support area, I was able to recover.

      Thanks for creating a great product!

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    September 24, 2009 @ 11:30 am

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