Subdomain Link Cloaking
A common practice at the moment is to shorten affiliate links into a more useable format. For example, I have an affiliate link for 123-reg.co.uk which is http://www.123-reg.co.uk/affiliate.cgi?id=AF106554. However, if I want to share that link with someone, I have to login to my control panel, and get the link. It would be a lot nicer if I could offer a more memorable link like ukdomains.jellyandcustard.com.
This is in fact very easy to set up, however for those of you on shared hosts (without access to httpd.conf) your host will need to aid you in one or two steps.Here's how I did it:
3 comments May 24th, 2006