# Back End Development and APIs Projects - URL Shortener Microservice - Help Needed

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 20, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037 "2022-08-20T05:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![reneyibowei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/reneyibowei/32/242437_2.png) [@reneyibowei](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/reneyibowei)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037/1 "2022-08-20T05:44:53Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**  
Issues:

1. URLs do not save
2. The URLs do not redirect

**Your code so far**

**Your browser information:**

User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; IMO Q4 Pro) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36`

**Challenge:** Back End Development and APIs Projects - URL Shortener Microservice

**Link to the challenge:**

> **[freeCodeCamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/back-end-development-and-apis-projects/url-shortener-microservice)**
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> Learn to Code — For Free

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**Author:** ![jeremy.a.gray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/jeremy.a.gray/32/181458_2.png) [@jeremy.a.gray](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/jeremy.a.gray)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037/2 "2022-08-20T12:17:29Z")

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It’s impossible to tell what the problem is without your code. Post a link to your repl.it for the project so people can help.

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**Author:** ![reneyibowei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/reneyibowei/32/242437_2.png) [@reneyibowei](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/reneyibowei)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037/3 "2022-08-20T12:52:04Z")

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Sorry, here it [is](https://replit.com/@ReneYibowei1/boilerplate-project-urlshortener#index.js)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/original/3X/e/1/e1c433102e34b46dfaa3e15d13ab9a514b127078.svg) [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/back-end-development-and-apis-projects-url-shortener-microservice-help-needed/545037/4 "2023-02-19T00:52:16Z")

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