Redirects for non-existant short urls goes to full YOURLS directory

[adamesq]

I moved my YOURLS earlier today from one domain to another on the same account. The only issue I'm having is when I put in a shortened URL that I haven't created, I get redirected to the YOURLS main directory. All legit short URLs work as they should. Admin login works as it should. Any ideas? THANX!

[dgw]

What you describe is YOURLS' default behavior when a keyword isn't defined yet:

YOURLS/yourls-go.php

Lines 19 to 27 in f1ae0ef

	// if we can get a long URL from the DB, redirect
	if( $url = yourls_get_keyword_longurl( $keyword ) ) {
	yourls_redirect_shorturl($url, $keyword);
	return;
	}
	// Either reserved keyword, or no such keyword
	yourls_do_action( 'redirect_keyword_not_found', $keyword );
	yourls_redirect( YOURLS_SITE, 302 ); // no 404 to tell browser this might change, and also to not pollute logs

…likely combined with a webserver that is configured to show a directory listing when there's no index file (index.html, index.php, etc.), based on your use of the phrase "full YOURLS directory".

Disabling directory indexes on your YOURLS domain is recommended. To prevent missing keywords from redirecting to the domain root, and make them directly return Not Found, install and activate the 404-if-not-found plugin.

[adamesq]

THANK YOU again, @dgw! I read a reply you had written many years ago before posting. Somehow, this time in sunk in! 😂