[Plugin: Base64 Shortlinks] "Oops something's wrong" error

What prefix URL are you trying to use exactly?

My blog is at https://www.davidglover.org/

The default value is “https://davidglover.org/b/” and I get that error. I also get the same error for the following:

https://www.davidglover.org/b/
https://www.davidglover.org/
https://www.davidglover.org/wordpress/ (which is where wordpress is actually installed).

All give the “Oops!” error.

Yeah, nothing unusual there… that should work!

What is ‘home’ set to? The result of get_option(‘home’). Maybe that’s confusing it…

It’s going wrong inside b64sl_make_rewrite_rule but I’m not sure why.

home is “https://www.davidglover.org”

Ok, I think I see it. Can you change line 424 from

if (!preg_match ('@^[a-z]+://([^/:]+)/(.*)[:\d]*(.*)$@i', $blog_base,$match))

to

if (!preg_match ('@^[a-z]+://([^/:]+)[:\d]*/?(.*)$@i', $blog_base,$match))

and let me know if that works?

Thanks!

Hey there, have you had a chance to give this a try yet?

Sorry for the delay.

That did seem to fix it, yes. However, I have custom permalinks set. Does it only work if you have ?p=123 format permalinks? I can’t figure out how to tell what the short url of a post is, otherwise.

No, it should work regardless of your permalink format; this only sets the shortlink. That’s returned by wp_get_shortlink() and you can see it if you View Source on any post and look for <link rel=’shortlink’ href=’…’> That should be in the new format instead of in the ?p=123 format.

Ah yes, it does.

That works great, thanks.

One final question:

Why are my page slugs so long?

For example:
https://dg.gs/b/B1MAAAdT

This seems to be much longer than the examples you give.

Well, that’s not right! The link should be just https://dg.gs/b/B1M. I’m not sure what’s going wrong. Can you save this as a PHP file on your server, load it, and send me the output? Also, what version of PHP and WordPress are you running?

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

1: 1875
2: =00=00=07S
3: =00=00=07S
4: =00=00=07S=00=00=07S
5: AAAHUwAAB1M=
6: =07S=00=00=07S
7: 808453971
7: 1875
8: =07S
9: 808464432
9: 808453971

WordPress 3.2.1
PHP version 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.2

Damn, that got corrupted. Apparently you can’t type backslashes here. Change all the occurrences of “00” (zero zero) to be a backslash followed by three zeroes. Or send me email (jwz@jwz.org) and I’ll mail you the right version. Thanks!

If things are going the way I expect, output should be

1: 1875
2: =00=00=00=00
3: =00=00=07S
4: =00=00=00=00=00=00=07S
5: B1M=
6: =07S=00=00=07S
7: 1875
7: 1875
8: =07S
9: 0
9: 1875

Ok, let’s try this:

<?
print "<pre>\n";
print (1875 >> 15) . "\n";
print (1875 >> 16) . "\n";
print (1875 >> 31) . "\n";
print (1875 >> 32) . "\n";

0
0
0
1875