Comments on: How To Redirect Affiliate Links

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:30:47 +0000

Hello John,
I enjoyed your tutorial but my need has a twist…
My site is setup to support hundreds of affiliate links stored in a MySQL database. I pull the links with a recordset into a repeat region as well as with a dynamic list/menu (using Dreamweaver & PHP). Each link is stored in it’s own record along with affiliate name, etc.
Any suggestions how to modify what you outlined in the tutorial.
Thx,
Dave

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:13:23 +0000

Hey thanks for this simple yet effective strategy! I quickly implemented this on a couple of my blogs. Is there any way to 100% mask the referrer id?

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:50:34 +0000

great tutorial, thanks for the tip!

By: Borca Alin

Borca Alin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:33:07 +0000

Very good tutorial, thank you!

By: John Ward

John Ward — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:30:40 +0000

@Ron

Ron in order for the mod rewrite to work, you would have to have the .htaccess in a folder and that folder would also need to contain link.php. It is hard to troubleshoot without seeing how your links are structure. Feel free to fill out the contact form to email us if you want some additional help.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:35:33 +0000

I have problem with the 2nd part, where you have to edit .htaccess to make the link look clean. I copied the exact same code but it did not work for me : (

Any guidance?

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:00:05 +0000

I do not understand this part:

[Add the following lines of code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^link/([/_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)$ link.php?id=$1]

Where do we add these lines of code to? Do we copy the exact lines?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:11:31 +0000

I keep getting a ‘no input file specified’ error.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:20:59 +0000

Ops, forgot to mention. It’s http://www.acloaker.com. Thanks.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:19:42 +0000

Hi, nice approach using .htaccess to give a nice url name without the .php extension. Alternative than RewriteEngine, I use:

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
ForceType application/x-httpd-php

Hope it helps.

For other approach of redirection method that does not require .htaccess modification, I just build a site that does that. Hope you might take a look.