If you want to implement the rest of it with a ( trigger I can counter-diff you for a (( trigger.

the trigger was the main thing preventing me from implementing phurl

Started building and insanely easier as an application. "Favorites" unless you have a better suggestion. Seems more flexible.

Yep, that looks good to me.

Just for my own understanding:

I'm not actually sure which will end up being easier, I think they have like 95% of the same problems. Quick Create probably is a bit easier, though.

I'm for whichever is easiest, since the other will fall in line quickly after.

You were thinking about doing this one first, then Home later, right?

@epriestley I feel like we had this conversation on how to implement this somewhere... (on a diff)? Not sure where these extend from, just move it into Personal/Global settings?

Ahh okay. I understand now. That did indeed happen automatically.

If you give a Phurl an "Alias", you can type ((thatalias)) in Remarkup to reference it. For example:

Also the ((alias)) syntax should use the most-preferred URI, although I think that will happen automatically.

That should really have been in a day 1 "spend 10 minutes doing this stuff first" document, I started collecting this stuff in T11561.

Also, are prototype applications enabled (phabricator.show-prototypes)? If not, Phurl won't actually be installed.

Alternate/simpler test is "does /phurl/ work".

Also, are prototype applications enabled (phabricator.show-prototypes)? If not, Phurl won't actually be installed.

Ah, okay. I'm not immediately sure, then -- did you restart Apache / is /config/edit/phurl.short-uri/ picking up the change?

I suppose we could link to /config/module/site/, which has a list of all Sites, but it's probably not intuitively obvious from there what's going on. It's also possible in some future world to reach this screen without running Phabricator at all (T1806), although probably unlikely.

Oh I left out the fact that I had already configured phurl.short-uri but still get the "Site Not Found" message.

First screen is good.

Just want to sanity check this before I continue. I set the ServerAlias and started getting this page when visiting short.url.com:

Ah, yeah. If you're using Apache with <VirtualHost /> directives, try something like this?

I'm unable to get URL shortening to work locally. Is there some apache configuration required to get it working?

Phurl is a URL shortener. This is an amazing unique type of application which I personally invented in 2015.

EditEngine is a slightly different way to build forms that look the same as other forms, introduced circa January 2016. Some applications have moved to it, while others have not yet. It seems pretty reasonable and stable, though, so we're in the process of moving everything over.

This is now fully configured.

I ultimately don't think there's any really reasonable way we can fix this that doesn't have a cost and complexity far greater than the benefit.

I did a chunk of this work as part of T10629 and we're in better shape on accepting SSL-terminated traffic now.

Yep, that worked. Thanks.

That one worked OK, yell if you're still seeing an issue?

Test: User Guide: Prototype Applications

Oh -- I misunderstood. The issue isn't that we're getting invalid markup or emitting markup in a text context, but that the link is relative.

Phurl is a prototype.

I don't think we actually need, this at least for now. We can look at it again later if we get more feedback about users making these sorts of errors, but it seems unlikely (I think?) that a use would type google and expect it to work.

Let's just wait for a stronger use case before building this, I think our URL construction has generally become much stronger since this idea was originally tossed around.

Out pf curiosity, why not use the ... syntax instead of copy-pasting the full URL?

Out pf curiosity, why not use the @{article:...} syntax instead of copy-pasting the full URL?

I've been using the ((alias)) syntax pretty frequently and it's been really helpful -- we have a bunch of documentation we point people at all the time, and before Phurl I'd open a new tab, search for the document, copy-paste the URL, and maybe put some [[ ... | nice title ]] syntax around it. Now I just ((thing)) and it's way easier. The search + copy/paste workflow wasn't hugely time consuming, but it was really annoying.