Easily Find Me Anywhere Online
Do you know my website? That’s right, it’s davidgiesberg.com. Want to find me on Facebook? Easy. Go to davidgiesberg.com/facebook. Twitter? davidgiesberg.com/twitter LinkedIn? You guessed it, davidgiesberg.com/linkedin
All of those URLs will redirect you to my public URL for any of those services, I also have it set up for LinkedIn and my tumblr (which is inactive right now). You can do it too, as long as your webhost will allow you to use .htaccess files (which I believe that most basic hosts should be able to do, correct me if I am wrong).
Here’s how to do it:
- Create a file called htaccess (Windows won’t let you do .htaccess, so we can add that on later) in your text editor of choice
- In that text file, add a new line for each redirection that you want to do, written out like this:
Redirect /SERVICENAME http://EXAMPLE.COM/ME - Upload that file to your webhost (at the root of your domain, if you want to do it the way I did) once you are all done (don’t overwrite anything that is there, instead download the file that is there and add the stuff you just wrote to the bottom)
- Add the period at the beginning so the filename is .htaccess
- Test it out!
Here is what I added to the .htaccess file at the site’s root:
Redirect /facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=17500899
Redirect /linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgiesberg
Redirect /twitter http://twitter.com/davidgiesberg
Redirect /tumblr http://davidgiesberg.tumblr.com
Now you don’t have to remember any site’s weird URLs, you just have standardized easy-to-remember addresses. These can be great for business cards (electronic or hard copy) or email signatures and a good way to use your personal domain.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:58 am
wow. we had this conversation?