Hi,

I have been using apache rewriting in my .htaccess file in order to use pretty URLs, e.g. www.mydomain.com/wiki/Page

Here is the code I was using:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^[^:]*.(php|src|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp|css|js|inc|phtml|pl|ico|html|shtml)$ - [L,NC] RewriteRule ^index.php?title - [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

Due to the way mod_rewrite works, pages with Ampersands in them were being truncated, so if I tried to acces the page "Terms & Conditions" then I would actually be directed to the page "Terms".

I found a fix for this on MW.org, which was to add a rule to rewrite & symbols with %26, so they were escaped again. My .htaccess file now looks like this (the fourth line has been added):

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^[^:]*.(php|src|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp|css|js|inc|phtml|pl|ico|html|shtml)$ - [L,NC] RewriteRule ^index.php?title - [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)&(.*)$ $1%26$2 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

This successfully solves the above problem. However if I try to go to a sub-page of a page with an ampersand then the sub-page part of the page name is doubled. E.g.

T&C/page1 becomes T&C/page1/page1 T&C/page1/page2 becomes T&C/page1/page2/page1/page2

This only applies to pages with ampersands - not to other pages. I have checked the value of $_GET at the top of index.php and the title parameter already includes the doubled text, so it is clearly a problem with the rewrite rule. However I can't figure out what the problem is.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I am asking here before taking it to the Apache forums as I suspect it is something that other MediaWiki users will have encountered and perhaps a fix is already known.

I am using Apache 1.3.37 and MW 1.6.10

- Mark Clements (HappyDog)