add news item for ikiwiki 3.20140227

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / forum / Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn b/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
index cabb21b5c9946b792fff5ce8489f39d1b78a9d82..5df81e561762c0f14aeb55bbc38288f90ab194d5 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
+++ b/doc/forum/Forward_slashes_being_escaped_as_252F.mdwn
@@ -20,3 +20,14 @@ I am running ikiwiki 3.20100504~bpo50+1 on Debian Lenny.
        Location: http://ciffer.net/~svend/ikiwiki.cgi?page=tech%252Fhosts&do=edit
 
 > You'll need to investigate why your web server is doing that... --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I have the following redirect
+>> in my Apache config.
+
+       RewriteEngine on
+       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.ciffer\.net$
+       RewriteRule /(.*) http://ciffer.net/$1 [L,R]
+
+>> and my ikiwiki url setting contained `www.ciffer.net`, which was causing the
+>> redirect. Correcting the url fixed the problem. I'm still not sure why
+>> Apache was mangling the URL. --[[Svend]]