[BUG] setting the alt reddit link to old.reddit.com causes the url to change to old.old.old.old.old. etc

[RoyalOughtness]

Describe the bug

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set WHOOGLE_ALT_RD=old.reddit.com
2. Search for something that results in a reddit link
3. click the link
4. observe that the url is https://old.old.old.old.old.old.old.old.old.old.reddit.com instead of https://old.reddit.com

Deployment Method

• Heroku (one-click deploy)
• Docker
• run executable
• pip/pipx
• Other: [describe setup]

Version of Whoogle Search

• Latest build from [source] (i.e. GitHub, Docker Hub, pip, etc)
• Version 0.9.3
• Not sure

[allandiegoasilva]

I tried to reproduce it and couldn't, could you give an example of the search term?

Look image below that all links is correctly:

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva Strange. What value do you have set for WHOOGLE_ALT_RD?

could you give an example of the search term?

Any search term that gives reddit results. For example, "reddit"

[allandiegoasilva]

@RoyalOughtness I followed your steps for reproduce and set environment WHOOGLE_ALT_RD with value old.reddit.com.

How I test it?

1. First I cloned repository.
2. I build local whoogle-search docker image with docker build -t whoogle-search:v1.0.0
3. Change WHOOGLE_ALT_RD in docker-compose.yml with value old.reddit.com
4. Setup docker with whoogle-search:v1.0.0 image

After it, I have accessed and all look is ok.

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva What is v1.0.0? I'm not seeing that tag available on docker. There's latest and 0.9.3.

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva oh, I misread. You built locally. Can you try with the 0.9.3 docker image and see if you still can't reproduce?

[allandiegoasilva]

@RoyalOughtness

But you can check my docker-compose.yml:

services:
  whoogle-search:
    image: benbusby/whoogle-search:0.9.3
    container_name: whoogle-search
    restart: unless-stopped
    pids_limit: 50
    mem_limit: 256mb
    memswap_limit: 256mb
    # user debian-tor from tor package
    user: whoogle
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    tmpfs:
      - /config/:size=10M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
      - /var/lib/tor/:size=15M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
      - /run/tor/:size=1M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
    environment:
      - WHOOGLE_ALT_RD=old.reddit.com
    ports:
      - 5000:5000

In my test I got same result, every link is correctly:

Possible solution

1. Maybe try rebuild image locally and use again.
2. Remove 0.9.3 image with docker rm image benbusby/whoogle-search:0.9.3 and try again.
3. Review your environments

If you constate that is only a local problem, could you close the issue?

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva Here's my docker-compose. I wonder if the traefik integration is potentially causing issues? Although I don't see why that would be the case:

version: "2.4"

services:
  traefik:
    image: "traefik:v3.4.1"
    container_name: "traefik"
    command:
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
      - "--entrypoints.websecure.http.tls=true"
      - "--providers.docker.network=proxy"
      - "--providers.file.filename=/var/home/user/tls.yml"
    ports:
      - "443:443"
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "./letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
      - "/var/home/user/tls.yml:/var/home/user/tls.yml:ro"
      - "/var/home/user/tls/:/var/home/user/tls:ro"
  whoogle-search:
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.rule=Host(`search.whoogle`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.services.whoogle-search.loadbalancer.server.port=5000"
    image: benbusby/whoogle-search:0.9.3
    container_name: whoogle-search
    restart: unless-stopped
    pids_limit: 50
    mem_limit: 256mb
    memswap_limit: 256mb
    # user debian-tor from tor package
    user: whoogle
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    tmpfs:
      - /config/:size=10M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
      - /var/lib/tor/:size=15M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
      - /run/tor/:size=1M,uid=927,gid=927,mode=1700
    environment: 
      - WHOOGLE_CONFIG_URL=https://search.whoogle
      - HTTPS_ONLY=1
      - WHOOGLE_CONFIG_THEME=dark
      - WHOOGLE_CONFIG_ALTS=1
      - WHOOGLE_ALT_RD=old.reddit.com
    ports:
      - 8000:5000

[allandiegoasilva]

@RoyalOughtness Thanks for sharing your docker-compose.
I recommend simplifying the setup for initial testing — try running it without Traefik first to reduce variables and confirm the core functionality.
Once it's working properly, you can reintroduce Traefik and test the integration step-by-step.

Thank you,
Allan

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva I tried with your docker-compose, and the alt link isn't working to begin with. I think the issue is that you're searching with site:old.reddit.com. Try searching without that and let me know what happens. I think you'll find that the alt link isn't used (www.reddit.com isn't changed to old.reddit.com). The goal here isn't to redirect old.reddit.com to old.reddit.com, it's to redirect standard www.reddit.com links to old.reddit.com. Searching with site:old.reddit.com negates this.

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva I found another possible clue. This isn't specific to reddit. If I set the wikipedia override to en.wikipedia.org, then this shows:

But the actual url in this case is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en

There is something off about the alt url handling.

[RoyalOughtness]

@allandiegoasilva I found and fixed both bugs and some others 😄

traefik was not related. Have a look: #1235