Local alias
Simple Node.js server app that allows you to create short aliases for any URL provided.
Installation
npm install -g local-alias
You can install it on any machine running Node.js. I'm serving it from RaspberryPI 3.
Note that this tool makes sense if your hostname is short (e.g. home
/ http://home/
) and the server runs at default 80
port.
Therefore please make sure that 80
port is available on your machine.
You can always change the port
value in the config.json
file.
Here's how to change your hostname on RPi.
Configuration
cd $(npm root -g)
cd local-alias
nano config.json
Configure your config.json
file providing an alias name as a key and URL as the value.
{
"port": 80,
"aliases": {
"oh": "http://openhabianpi:8080/start/index",
"github": "https://github.com/issues/mentioned"
}
}
This way you have a quick access to those URLs by simply typing
home/github
in your browser.
You can also link aliases to other aliases (with >
prefix) if you don't want to duplicate URLs.
{
"port": 80,
"aliases": {
"forum": "https://community.openhab.org",
"community": ">forum"
}
}
You can also create simple URL wildcards with %s
in the URL value:
{
"aliases": {
"binding": "http://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/%s/readme.html",
"help": "http://docs.openhab.org/search?q=%s"
}
}
And use it like this:
http://home/binding/airquality
http://home/help/whatever
Running
node local-alias
There's a possibility to run this as a service using forever
.
~$ cd $(npm root -g)