[Mediawiki-l] Test snapshot for MediaWiki 1.6.0

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 4/5/06, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com> wrote:

> when accessing the special pages, I'm
> seeing this Apache error:
>
>   [Wed Apr 05 11:47:15 2006] [error] [client aa.bb.cc.dd] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map
> GET /wiki/Especial:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://localhost/wiki/Portada

The problem, as it turns out, is not related to using pretty URLs
and/or mod_alias aliases, and it is not new (sort of). Back in 2003,
the Apache developers talked about it:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=106448755422191&w=2

AFAICS, it is related to Apache on Windows deciding that colon is not
a valid character in filenames. However, it seems like something
(probably mod_php) should tell Apache the paths are valid because they
don't really map to a file.

The weird thing is that this didn't happen before, so either the
Apache 2.2.X build on Windows, or PHP 5.1.2 (and .3RC) is doing
something different...

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