Option to not have the /s/ in the url

[liamlah]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

This is a great idea, thank you for creating this.

If I am dedicating a domain/subdomain to this service, ideally I'd want the url to be as short as functionally possible. The /s/ seems like 2 potentially unnecessary characters.

Describe the solution you'd like

If technically feasible an option to not have the /s/ in the url.

Additional context

I do independent technical support, and this could help me when directing someone to a url over the phone, in a situation where a url is being communicated verbally, the fewer characters, the better

[fidst]

This would be cool, even if it was an option panel to choose what you'd like in place of the /s/.

• /s/
• /
• /[custom]/

[danmed]

This is the only thing stopping me from switching from yourls to this.. i don't need a /s/ i just want domain/custom

[PaddyPat]

If you use a reverse proxy like caddy

s.domain.com {
@subdir {
 not path /s/*
 not file
 }
 rewrite @subdir /s{uri}
 reverse_proxy 172.17.0.1:8880
}

This will redirect s.domain.com/link to s.domain.com/s/link and redirects to destination

[mobiledude]

If you use a reverse proxy like caddy

s.domain.com {
@subdir {
 not path /s/*
 not file
 }
 rewrite @subdir /s{uri}
 reverse_proxy 172.17.0.1:8880
}

This will redirect s.domain.com/link to s.domain.com/s/link and redirects to destination

would the same work nginx proxymanager?

[PaddyPat]

If you use a reverse proxy like caddy

s.domain.com {
@subdir {
 not path /s/*
 not file
 }
 rewrite @subdir /s{uri}
 reverse_proxy 172.17.0.1:8880
}

This will redirect s.domain.com/link to s.domain.com/s/link and redirects to destination

would the same work nginx proxymanager?

Think so but I don’t use nginx.. it’s too complicated

[RealFascinated]

Is there any plans to implement this?

[boojack]

It's probably impossible to remove the s/ prefix from slash itself. However, it is recommended that you use a reverse proxy such as nginx to do so.

[rdamazio]

Would you be open to a pull request making this happen? It seems pretty easy to do.

[rdamazio]

(And btw, in Chrome my workaround so far is to add a search engine defined as the Slash url, and basically use space instead of / - but not ideal if you're deploying to many users)

[boojack]

@rdamazio FYI, Slash have another model Collection for sharing selected shortcuts, like a folder. And it would be prefixed with c/. So I think the necessary prefixes are needed.

[rdamazio]

@rdamazio FYI, Slash have another model Collection for sharing selected shortcuts, like a folder. And it would be prefixed with c/. So I think the necessary prefixes are needed.

You can just make one or both prefixes configurable - e.g. still use /c for collections but configure no prefix for shortcuts. Obviously that prevents having a shortcut called "c" (as well as one named the same as the prefix for the admin pages and API endpoints), but that's minor.

[adiologydev]

Surprised this isn't a thing yet.

[craftzneko]

It would be good to have configurable prefix's or none at all. We are looking for a shorting service to run internally and this would fit the bill without the prefix

[rdamazio]

I took a first stab at this and got the server side working and part of the frontend, but my limited knowledge of React is making it very slow to make the frontend changes (I'm a backend person). Would anyone like to take over what I have so far?

[adiologydev]

I took a first stab at this and got the server side working and part of the frontend, but my limited knowledge of React is making it very slow to make the frontend changes (I'm a backend person). Would anyone like to take over what I have so far?

Sure, I'd be happy to finish this up.

[rdamazio]

I took a first stab at this and got the server side working and part of the frontend, but my limited knowledge of React is making it very slow to make the frontend changes (I'm a backend person). Would anyone like to take over what I have so far?

Sure, I'd be happy to finish this up.

Pushed to https://github.com/rdamazio/slash.