# Shorter url

**URL:** <https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373>\
**Category:** SCM-Manager (General)\
**Created:** [August 23, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373 "2024-08-23T03:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![decuser](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/decuser/32/1469_2.png) [@decuser](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/decuser)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/1 "2024-08-23T03:20:00Z")

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After a couple of years experimenting with fossil as my scm, I’m moving back to git… and scm-manager. I can’t remember for sure, but it seems like the urls used to be shorter, currently, I have a code repo hosted on scm-manager (and about 8 others), the url looks like:

```auto
http://odin:8080/scm/repo/scmadmin/code

```

I thought it used to be something along the lines of:

```auto
http://odin:8080/repos/code

```

or even

```auto
http://odin:8080/code

```

Is this possible or am I misremembering (used version 1 and 2 and maybe even early 3…)?

Thanks,

Will

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**Author:** ![thomas.zerr](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/thomas.zerr/32/1536_2.png) [@thomas.zerr](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/thomas.zerr)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/2 "2024-08-26T07:33:01Z")

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Hello @decuser,

no this is not possible. You can remove the `scm` part of the path, by setting the context path. For more information take a look [here](https://scm-manager.org/docs/3.4.x/en/administration/scm-server/). Alternatively you could use a reverse proxy to redirect the shorter urls to the actual ones.

With kind regards,

Thomas

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**Author:** ![decuser](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/decuser/32/1469_2.png) [@decuser](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/decuser)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/3 "2024-08-26T13:48:45Z")

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Hi @thomas.zerr ,

Ah well, it was a nice thought. I’ll live with it. I know the url now and if I forget later, cat .git/config will bring it back to memory. Thanks!

- will

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**Author:** ![dudki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/dudki/32/1487_2.png) [@dudki](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/dudki)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/4 "2024-09-20T10:21:49Z")

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> Alternatively you could use a reverse proxy to redirect the shorter urls to the actual ones.

I’m trying to do this right now. My rules are:

```auto
location / {										
			proxy_pass http://svn;	
			
  }  
		location /scmadmin/ {			
		    rewrite ^/scmadmin/(.*)$ /scm/repo/scmadmin/$1 break;
			proxy_pass http://svn;			
		}
  }

```

In nginx log is see that request to /scmadmin/My\_REPO was rewriten to /scm/repo/scmadmin/My\_REPO, but:

1. Browser show me header, footer and no contentof repo’s main page. Log reports:

```auto
 host: "svn"
 upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream,

```

1. TortioseSVN shows error “invalid path” on attempts to checkout repo or commit changes. While actualy i still can commit but there is an error.  
Yep, i’ve used [this manual](https://scm-manager.org/docs/3.4.x/en/administration/reverse-proxies/) to configure nginx  
So, the question is - do anybody have successfull example of shortening url IRL ?

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**Author:** ![christoph.loose](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/christoph.loose/32/1400_2.png) [@christoph.loose](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/christoph.loose)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/5 "2024-09-23T07:23:52Z")

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Hi @dudki

thank you for your post! And welcome to our community.  
Maybe this is helpful for you: [Enhance URL Redirection for User-friendly Access to SVN Files · Issue #2193 · scm-manager/scm-manager · GitHub](https://github.com/scm-manager/scm-manager/issues/2193) another user found a workaround. But there is no guarante that it will work on your side too.

Anyways currently we do have no plans to put this as a feature on our roadmap. Maybe in the future.  
Why do you want to shorten your URLs?

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**Author:** ![dudki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.cloudogu.com/dudki/32/1487_2.png) [@dudki](https://community.cloudogu.com/u/dudki)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.cloudogu.com/t/shorter-url/1373/6 "2024-09-26T14:38:27Z")

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Thank you, Christoph!  
You were right, it doesn’t work 🙂  
My team asked me to short the URL if possible. Seems like not. The simptoms are all the same.