Description:
Very simple to install and use free url shortening script that will let you set up your own service in a few minutes. Front page design can be easily modified by editing just a one template file – “template.html” (front page HTML is totally separated from PHP!). It does not require any database to work. Submitted urls can be easily managed through integrated administrator panel.
Features:
- No database required
- Handle unlimited number of urls
- Totally separated from PHP & easy to edit front page
- Integrated administrator panel
- Redirect all traffic from removed & non existing shortcuts (new!)
- Click count & date of last click (new!)
- Quick 1-2-3 setup (upload / CHMOD / Run SETUP.PHP)
Installation:
- Upload all files to your server
- CHMOD following files and folders to be writable & readable by PHP (if unsure set 777):
- “store” folder with all files in it (store/*)
- “.htaccess”
- “conf.inc.php” - Run “setup.php” in your web browser (for example http://www.yourdomain.com/setup.php) and follow instructions
If you want to access administrator panel you need to open “admin.php” in your web browser and use login & password that was set during installation.
Updating:
If you want to update script from previous version, you should overwrite all files except “template.html” and follow “Installation” instructions. You will not loose any previously created links. Just keep your “store” folder untouched.
Main page template customization:
If you want to customize your main page you need to edit “template.html” and “style.css”. Don’t forget to use {status_info} template tag. It will be replaced with system messages (created urls or errors).
Demo (live versions):
- Demo installation 1 – Frontend, backend (login: admin; pass: demo999).
- Demo installation 2 – Frontend.
Download:
To download this script for free you need to register on this website with your email address. It will take you just a minute. Please use the form on the bottom of my right sidebar called “Software Notifications”.
Donations are welcome:
MiniUrlz is free of charge but your donations help to pay some hosting bills and motivate me to continue my work.
How to remove footer links from MiniUrlz front page:
As stated below (in the license paragraph) you can not remove or hide footer links without author permission. You can get author (mine) permission to remove it by donating €10 or $15 per domain. If you are interested please donate with button above and contact me (provide your domain name). You will receive new license file that should be uploaded to your installation. It will display your domain name instead of standard footer.
If you need more informations here is detailed post about removing MiniUrlz footer.
Changelog:
- Version 1.0b – First release
- Version 1.1 – Imroved installation script, improved links pagination in admin panel, fixed template function (closed BODY tag)
- Version 1.1.1 – Fixed setup script. On some hosts previous setup might broke .htaccess file that cause script not to work at all.
- Version 1.5 – New features added: Redirecting all traffic from deleted & not existing shortcuts, click count, last click date count, shortcut creation date.
Code cleanup: fixed encoding, improved readability in administrator area, general code cleanup.
License:
Script is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. It mean that you may use, modify and redistribute this scripts for free but you may not remove or hide any links in the footer without author permission. If you want to remove links from your installed copy please read next paragraph.
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more nice if on admin , it added
url Created, Last Access, Hits .
Thanks for the suggestion. Will be included in one of the future releases.
Hi, Kreci! Your script is ok, but I get Internal Server Error 500 after install. Setup.php is deleted, too. Any hints?
You need to check generated .htaccess compatibility according to your web host. If you need further help please use my contact form.
It works for me; however, when I click the link I get a 404 error – any hints?
Please make sure you have enabled .htaccess support.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in …./il1rsoft/short/parser.class.php on line 5
Help please
Probably you are using old version of php (4.x). You should upgrade your PHP.
Or you may edit “parser.class.php” and in line 5 instead of:
private $output;
try:
var $output;
But probably there will be more errors until you upgrade your PHP.
500 internal server Error?
Please make sure that your “.htaccess” file is readable by your apache server (check CHMOD – if unsure set 777). If it would not help you need to see .htaccess compatibility according to your web host.
Not Found
The requested URL /url-1.5/go.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Have you executed “setup.php”? Was it successful? Edit “.htaccess” so it would contain your web path to the script. Main domain directory would be:
RewriteBase /
Some subdirectory would be:
RewriteBase /path/to/url/
Thanks. worked smoothly ;)