Thanks Ilmari, This is the URL of the edit page: /w/index.php?title=What%3Fs_in_Season_this_month&action=edit Matthew On 06/02/2008, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:

On 2/6/08, Matthew Vickery <vickery.matthew(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well, for starters, "%3F" is a literal question mark, rather than something your browser doesn't know how to display. —C.W.

He already said: "My Wiki installation is as follows: MediaWiki: 1.10.0 PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.20"

PS: I'm not using .htaccess to create short URLs. Instead I'm using the Alias method as described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Page_title_--_Aliasing_metho… Matthew On 07/02/2008, Matthew Vickery <vickery.matthew(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry Huji, An apostrophe in the "content" of the page appears correctly as an apostrophe both before and after the page has been saved. Hope this helps? Matthew On 07/02/2008, Huji <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Huji! When I remove all URL shortening as per Huji's advice the problem goes away. However I would like short URLs and so need to fix my this. Now the problem has been isolate how do I fix it? I've gone over my code again and as far as I can see everything is as described in this article: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Guide Here is my .htaccess, vhost_ssl.conf and LocalSettings.php code: .htaccess: # Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory. Options All -Indexes # Force all traffic to use secure connection RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} vhost_ssl.conf: # MediaWiki Short URL Aliases #These must come last, and in this order! Alias /brandstandards /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/bs/index.php Alias /wiki /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/w/index.php Alias /index.php /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/w/index.php (There are two Wikis on the domain but that's not the cause of the problem) LocalSettings.php: ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. $wgScriptPath = "/w"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = true; $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/logo.png"; $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/img_auth.php"; On 08/02/2008, Huji <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Ilmari Karonen wrote: ...although, come to think of it, it might be even better to try it like this: RewriteRule ^wiki(/(.*))?$ /w/index.php?title=$2 [L,NS,QSA] That way, you'll avoid passing title via PATH_INFO, and any character mangling issues that might cause. (Both work just fine for me, but your Apache installation might be different. The comments in DefaultSettings.php do warn about possible problems with path info, so it might be worth checking.) -- Ilmari Karonen

Matthew Vickery wrote: Those are there only to allow "/wiki" without the trailing slash to be redirected appropriately; if you don't need that feature, or have a separate rewrite rule for that, then you don't need them. Probably, but you could put the mod_rewrite rules in your http.conf. That should make it about as fast as mod_alias would be. -- Ilmari Karonen