URL is an URL manager (and shortener) powered by Cecil (a static site generator).

How does it work?

URL is files based, so it nead a file to handle the redirection from the slug to the target URL.
So you just have to create this file then URL does the rest of the job.

URL creates:

1. an HTML file for each URL including the HTML redirect
2. a Netlify Redirects file
3. an Apache .htaccess file

Usage

Create an URL

To create a new URL just create a Markdown file in the pages/ directory, with a redirect variable stored in the front matter.

Example

File name: ggl.md

File content:

---
redirect: https://www.google.com/search?q=cecil+static
---

Demo: https://url-demo.cecil.app/ggl

Build and deploy

1. Clone this repository and install components with composer install, or run composer create-project cecil/url myproject
2. Download Cecil
3. Build the website: php cecil.phar build
4. Deploy the _site directory on your Web server

With Netlify

License

URL is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

© Arnaud Ligny