anyone know of a script that can do what tinyurl does that i can host myself?

i mean i can do it manually with meta-refresh's but i like the one-click bookmarklet, and i'd like the ability to track hits and stuff

tinyurl is down at the moment if you haven't guessed by now

edit--
i just read http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/tinyurl_vs_url123.php
i need something that can instantly modify .htaccess files on the server
i've tried YaSUS: http://yasus.sourceforge.net/ but their demo site didn't work either

[Edited on February 6, 2007 at 7:12 PM. Reason : .]

2/6/2007 6:53:56 PM

add simple logging scripts to a php form where you submit a url, it queries a database (or flat text list) of hashed urls, and either spits out the list/db entry or makes a new hash and hosts/forwarding entry. put a gotcha on there to prevent bots and you're golden. security shouldn't be a huge ordeal either.

[Edited on February 6, 2007 at 9:10 PM. Reason : the hash could also be made into an iframe hosted at urdns.blah/hash.html]

2/6/2007 9:09:38 PM

tiny url is back up http://tinyurl.com/
theres also this: http://snipurl.com/

heres one with some source code...might be what you're looking for
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ZetaTinyUrl.asp

[Edited on February 7, 2007 at 8:54 AM. Reason : snip]

2/7/2007 8:54:23 AM

yeah it's back up but that outage cost me around 600 hits that i would have normally gotten

it wasn't a big deal - no money involved or anything, but my content didn't get out because of it.

i just want to host it myself

that link you gave me is just a middle-man script that makes a tinyurl.com URL for you

2/8/2007 1:41:27 AM

can i just use a perl script to edit .htaccess ?

i don't know perl at all but i figure file manipulation can't be too difficult to copy from some other perl script.

maybe a php script to make a javascript bookmarklet for, and that php script submits to a cgi script to edit the htaccess file.

or can i just securely edit the htaccess file using PHP?

2/8/2007 5:03:10 AM