Adding root URL with slug / does not work and is not deleteable

[Empty2k12]

Summary

Adding a new short URL with custom slug as / works, shlink displays this URL as domain.tld in the list. However the root URL does not resolve (https://domain.tld gives the 404 page) and the short URL cannot be deleted with the message: Something went wrong while deleting the URL :(

How Shlink is set-up

Docker: https://hub.docker.com/layers/shlinkio/shlink/stable/images/sha256-7a50dd4401dd366f9636c3fa146d9de82d3a918fb6d03807fa0a7a445582e8b6?context=explore

How to reproduce

On https://app.shlink.io/:

1. Add new short URL with these settings: Insert the URL to be shortened: https://gero.dev and Custom Slug: /
2. Navigate to List short URLs
3. See new short domain for root domain. Open that, it will 404. Try to delete it, it fails.

[acelaya]

That shouldn't really be allowed. I will make sure that gets validated and a meaningful error is returned.

In order to configure a fallback redirect from your base domain, you have to pass the BASE_URL_REDIRECT_TO env var to the docker image.

You can find more information here https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink/tree/develop/docker#supported-env-vars

[Empty2k12]

I got the BASE_URL_REDIRECT_TO to work, thanks! I appreciate your work on the project and that the behavior will be fixed soon.

Maybe it can be allowed that the empty URL I have in my instance can be deleted, but new empty ones can't be created?

[acelaya]

Yes, that's the plan. However, you can always manually delete that URL from the database, of you don't want to wait for the next release to be ready.

[acelaya]

Hey @Empty2k12

I'm afraid I cannot make this URL to be deletable. You will have to manually remove it from the database if it bothers you to see it there.

[Empty2k12]

@acelaya I appreciate your fix for this! I already deleted the URL so everything is fine. Thanks for your work, the product is excellent!

[acelaya]

Thanks for the kind words 🙂