A link for a survey has the following structure:
my.website.xx/index.php/123456?lang=en and possibly some extra characters for the token and or fields for prefilling.
I would like to make this shorter, like:
my.website.xx/JYRECJ
Of course URL shortening can be done via an external service, but that may be seen as a privacy issue, just like using Google fonts of Google Analytics.
I looked around and found some possible solutions, but since I am not a coder, I have no idea how to implement these features in LimeSurvey.

And to expand them, for example when using tokens, to something like:
my.website.xx/JYRECJ/UHNNJI where the last part is the token.
Has anyone experimented with this? What are pros and cons?

Tammo
 

htaccess redirect for a one time process ?

Else : to have a cleaner solution :
need a plugin can you test my.example.org/123456?lang=en to check if url rewriting work ?

Hi Denis,

of course I can use a .htaccess rule. But I want to give users a possiblity without using difficult (for them) statements.

Use case: LimeSurvey installation for use by communication professionals, not IT

I do not understand the second part of your post.

Tammo

For the second part : if url rewriting without index.php didn't work : there are no way to interrupt example.org/mylilurl
If url rewriting work : a plugin can do something.

Else another way :
github.com/ldidry/lstu
framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lstu

Sorry : french manual : docs.framasoft.org/fr/lstu/

Removing index.php:


- manual.limesurvey.org/Optional_settings#URL_settings

Thank you. That is a good first step.

Could you not just use php to read the token and redirect?

Example 1 : no token

filename on my.website.xx : JYRECJ.php

Address my.website.xx/JYRECJ.php

with the content

<?php

header("location: https://server/index.php/surveyID?newtest=Y");

?>


Example 2 : with token

filename on my.website.xx : JYRECJ.php

Address my.website.xx/JYRECJ.php&t=UHNNJI

with the content

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

$tokenID=mysqli_real_escape_string($db,$_GET);

header("location: https://server/index.php/surveyID?token=$tokenID}&newtest=Y");

?>