I would like to have people visit it from a paper & ink press release: I could give them directions… turn left at my blog until you see… etc, or could I simply send them to example.com/easy and 301 to the long url? I looked at how to do this but could only find how to redirect a whole site.
If you know how to do this in htaccess or have thoughts on the merits of this, please post. Thanks.
mod_alias’ Redirect family of redirections are good for one-to-one so long as you don’t get carried away with a long list of Redirect statements.
The general specification is Redirect {optional code - 301 is a permanent redirection} {request URI} {absolute redirection} where the absolute redirection is either internal, i.e., /good-god-this-is-one-long-url-no-one-is-ever-going-to-type-it OR external, i.e., http://www.example.com/good-god-this-is-one-long-url-no-one-is-ever-going-to-type-it.