Installing yourls on Ubuntu 18.04 with MariaDB 10.1.x Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

Date: December 8, 2018
Categories: MySQL/MariaDB, Ubuntu

Issue: When installing yourls and clicking the INSTALL button under /admin/install.php you get a server Error 500 and the following error shows up in the log: 2018/12/08 21:22:10 [error] 21768#21768: *2 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max … Read More