Short URL

It is an API for creating a customized URL shortener inside the Drupal installation itself.

This module is a developer tool that takes URL of any length and produces very short URLs (3-5 characters).

Installation:

Unpack in your modules folder (usually '/sites/all/modules/')
Enable under Administer > Site Building > Modules

Features:

• Can be used for:
• Creating a localized URL shortener for a country/locale that existing URL shorteners do not cover.
• The Drupal system is behind a firewall and content/URLs can not be shared publicly.
• If wanting short URLs to carry your own domain, for brand management purposes, much like TechCrunch.com uses http://tcrn.ch domain for short URLs.

What is new in this release:

• Added:
• Increased unique id of urls to bigint
• Added index on lid column of shorturl_link
• Added check to skip routing attempt for Drupal's internal URLs (should improve performance/scalability).
• Fixed:
• Schema inconsistencies.
• shorturl not passing query strings along.

Requirements:

• Drupal 6.x

Limitations:

• It has no user-interface.