URL redirecter for library databases

[Coral Sheldon-Hess]

Eric,

I don't know if this approach will help you manage ALL links, but it's a
good way to manage links in LibGuides: *
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7019*
*
*(I admit, I have not yet taken the time to implement it in my library's
CampusGuides system. It's a lot of tedious work to set up, if you're
already running with a lot of guides...)

--
Coral Sheldon-Hess
http://sheldon-hess.org/coral
@web_librarian


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Eric Loehr <eloehr at smith.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We're trying to figure out a way to keep our database URLs current without
> having to update them in multiple places when they change; right now we
> have links to databases in our Drupal site, Libguides, on static HTML pages
> in Moodle, and maybe other places I'm not remembering.
>
> What I'd like to do is to assign a URL to each database (that can be
> entered in all of the above places) that can point to a database of some
> sort which redirects it to the correct URL. That way we'd only have to
> update it in the database instead of multiple web sites.
>
> After some Googling, I found YOURLS ( http://yourls.org/ ) - -  "YOURLS
> is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL
> shortening service (*a la*TinyURL). You can make it private or public,
> you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API."
>
> Has anyone ever used YOURLS?   Are there other better possibilites out
> there that folks are using?
>
> Thanks - -
>
> Eric
>
>
> --
> Eric Loehr
> Library Systems Manager
> eloehr at smith.edu
> (413) 585-2969
>
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