posted on 2010-08-20 - amd.im/GRVD
I have been setting up a YOURLS server at amd.ws just to have a shortened URL that a is a bit more unique than bit.ly or tr.im. I had some issues with my unicode domain and here's how I fixed it.
I was getting redirects to WEBSITE.WS parking pages in Safari and failures to redirect in Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 when I tried to visit shortened urls that did not exist yet, like http://amd.ws/nonsense.
The issue lied in the encoding of my config.php file. If you are seeing problems like this, try using a good text editor like BBedit and save the file with "UTF-8 with BOM" encoding and see if that is more successful for you, it solved all my issues.
amdavidson.com is a simple blog run by Andrew Davidson, a manufacturing engineer with a blogging habit. He sometimes posts 140 character tidbits, shares photos, and saves links. You can also see posts dating back to 2005.