Short URL's don't work | WordPress.org

Resolved Luke
(@maciakl)

9 years, 2 months ago

My blog uses the http//www.example.com/blog style URL. When I enable shortn.it plugin the shortened URL’s don’t work.

For example let’s say I have a post with url like: http://www.example.com/blog/2015/01/01/some-long-name. I edit it, and update so that it gets a short URL like http://example.com/fObr

When I try to visit the short link, I get a 404 error from Apache. When I try to visit http://example.com/blog/fObr I get WordPress 404 page.

Any suggestions how to configure the plugin?

Also, I’m using WP-SuperCache. Could this be affecting the redirects?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortnit/

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Plugin Author docofmedia
(@docofmedia)

9 years, 2 months ago

Hi Luke,

It seems I have not accounted for WP installations not in the root of the domain. If example.com is served by a WordPress site, then you can have short links originating from the root, ie: example.com/fObr. If the main site is not WordPress, then the short link will have to include the path to the WordPress section, ie: example.com/blog/fObr.

I have not accounted for this situation within the plugin, so I’ll need to update so it will work.

Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention,
docofmedia

Plugin Author docofmedia
(@docofmedia)

9 years, 1 month ago

Hi Luke,

I have just pushed an update to fix this issue.

Thanks again for bringing this to my attention,
docofmedia

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