Vanity urls generally refers to those which are devoid of characters like %,&, and extensions like .html,.php, .asp etc and are "human-readable". it normally helps to maintain a proper hierarchy separated by slashes. For example, www.sourcepoint.tk/articles/category/general/ is one such url. it makes any one understand what the page has - Articles categorised under General category.
Questions tagged [vanity-url]
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Internal Redirects with Rails 3
I am trying to implement a generic vanity url system in Rails 3. Generic in the sense that the vanity url isn't tied to a specific model. It is similar to the Vanities gem where I have a VanityUrlController that is hit from all the vanity urls. The…
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Sling:alias vs vanityUrl in AEM
what is the main difference between vanity url and sling:alias?
as per docs : here
sling:alias – The property may be set on any resource to indicate an alias name for the resource. For example the resource /content/visitors may have the sling:alias…
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Link App Profile Page With App
We recently accidently deleted the connection between the vanity URL page and our App Profile page; by doing so, the "Go To App" button was also removed from the App Profile page.
Questions:
Is there a way to display the "Go To App" Button on the…
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Create vanity URLs in a LAMP configuration
What is the best way to create user vanity URLs under a LAMP configuration?
For example, a user profile page could be accessed as follows:
http://www.website.com/profile.php?id=1
Now, if a user enters a "vanity URL" for their profile I would want…
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Rails url needing posts/:id/the-name-of-post
I would like my rails url to look like:
/posts/345/the-great-concept
when i use the following in my posts model,
def to_param
"#{id}/#{name.parameterize.downcase}"
end
the urls look great upon mousover in the browser. and function correctly.…
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How can I create a persistent vanity URL in DotNetNuke?
I'm not aware of a solution for implementing custom persistent vanity URLs (my term, not sure if thats what they're really called) in DotNetNuke. Does anyone know of a solution? It can be configuring the core, using a third party module, or a…
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Wildcard subdomain for some but not all values on DNSimple
I have an app that is roughly fractured between a server serving front end and one serving an API. We'd like to add a wildcard to catch usernames on the subdomain and direct those to the front end server. So my URLs map like so:
Server that serves…
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Show and hide content from a vanity url
Ok I have a blog in php and mysql. I want to open the url in a div with show and hide javascript functions. Works fine with the rest of divs but the problem is when I click on a vanity url my web is always updated. I have a function that format this…
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Rails Vanity URLs for multiple models
I need to setup vanity urls for some models in my application, basically it's a product catalogue and I have Store, Brand and Category models. What I need here is setting up username like URLs for all these 3 models, so the routes should appear like…
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What should I do to make the pretty URLs using .htaccess for my specific scenario?
Here's my full case:
mvcframework directory inside /var/www/html/ dir.
mvcframework contains a public dir with index.php acting as a frontloader.
I am creating a .htaccess file inside public directory with following code:
…
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How to implement vanity URLs in a legacy Flask app?
I'm facing a problem where I need to redirect or replace existing URLs in a legacy Flask app to a more "vanity" URL scheme.
For instance:
www.example.org/camp -> really points to https://example.org/connect/rally_camps/register
While I managed to…
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Vanity URLs without trailing slashes on Apache
The code below rewrites all URLs in the /profiles/ directory on our site from example.com/profiles/name/ to example.com/name/, but we'd also like to remove the trailing slashes to further simplify the resulting URLs to the prettier example.com/name…
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Issue in execution order with RewriteRules
Due to marketing reasons, I'm using some vanity URL's for friendlier access, and to track some campaigns. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on a managed dedicated server, with cPanel, and these were the steps I took to write my rules:
First, I added xyz.com…
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Check vanitygen generated addresses locally?
First of all, I'm aware of the vast, vast keyspace of bitcoin addresses. However, I've been experimenting with Vanitygen these days and I was wondering if all the generated addresses in it were directly ported to a local server running the compiled…
user4215685
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.htaccess username url unless directory exists
I currently have the following code in place to give users their own URL for their username:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profile.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profile.php?username=$1
However, any existing…
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