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SpongeBob
SpongeBob

Reputation: 145

Software for internal url shortening and redirects

I want to build an internal url service for our research lab where you can create custom urls and reference them by simply typing

lab/<my-url>

in the address bar. (This would ONLY be accessible on the local network)

For instance, to link to some spreadsheet for lunch orders, one could create a url:

lab/lunch

This question has two parts:

  1. How do I go about doing the url redirection without affecting normal internet traffic?
  2. Are there existing software I can use for the management of the domain names?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 461

Answers (1)

BishopRook
BishopRook

Reputation: 1260

If you have control over the computers on your network, you could modify their hosts file. Wikipedia has a list of locations for this file.

You could set up a mapping for lab to go to the server that's hosting this shortcut system, and then set up some software for redirecting there. That would avoid having to mess around with DNS at all, but it would only work on systems that have the new hosts file set up properly.

As for actually setting up the server that does the redirection, I don't know of any software off the top of my head. It would be fairly simple to do in Ruby on Rails, depending on your experience level.

Upvotes: 1

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