Re: [Semediawiki-user] Problem with short url:s when for rss type

[Peder W. <ped...@gm...>]

It turns out that IIS filters out url paths that include '+' symbols, for
security reasons (
https://blogs.iis.net/thomad/iis7-rejecting-urls-containing). In the #ask
inline query, there was a [[newsdate::+]] argument, if removing that
argument it works.

2017-10-20 12:57 GMT+02:00 James HK <jam...@gm...>:

> Hi,
>
> > results in a page with url .../Special:Ask/....
> >
> > The wiki in installed on a Windwos Server 2016 (IIS 10).
>
> I'm convinced this relates to a `:` issue in IIS [0, 1]. Please create
> an example at [2] so that we verify the behaviour against a non IIS
> installation.
>
> [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/667429/using-a-
> colon-in-a-url-with-asp-net-iis
> [1] https://blogs.iis.net/nazim/use-of-special-characters-
> like-in-an-iis-url
> [2] https://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org
>
> Cheers
>
> On 10/20/17, Peder Wikström <ped...@gm...> wrote:
> > I have problems with short url:s for semantic queries with type = rss.
> > Short URL:s work fine on the wiki per se, but not this case when the
> query
> > results in a page with url .../Special:Ask/....
> >
> > The wiki in installed on a Windwos Server 2016 (IIS 10).
> > https://www.heurekaslu.se/wiki/Special:Version
> > PHP version 7.1.9
> > MediaWiki 1.29.1
> > Semnatic verson: 2.5.4
> >
> > Example: (you can find it on page
> > https://www.heurekaslu.se/wiki/Category:Release) that generates the RSS
> > page:
> >
> > English [[Image:Feed-icon.png]]
> > {{#ask:[[Category:Release]] [[language::!sv]] [[newsdate::+]]
> >  |?newsdate=
> >  |sort=newsdate
> >  |order=desc
> >  |date=newsdate
> >  |format=feed
> >  |type=rss
> >  |searchlabel= RSS
> > }}
> >
> > However, the page url generated results in "File not found":
> > https://www.heurekaslu.se/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-
> 5BCategory:Release-5D-5D-20-5B-5BNewsdate::%2B-5D-5D-20-
> 5B-5BLanguage::Sv-5D-5D/-3FNewsdate/mainlabel%3D/limit%
> 3D50/order%3Ddesc/sort%3Dnewsdate/offset%3D0/format%
> 3Dfeed/searchlabel%3D-20RSS/type%3Drss
> >
> > Changing to the explicit url works:
> > https://www.heurekaslu.se/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask/-
> 5B-5BCategory:Release-5D-5D-20-5B-5BNewsdate::%2B-5D-5D-
> 20-5B-5BLanguage::Sv-5D-5D/-3FNewsdate/mainlabel%3D/limit%
> 3D50/order%3Ddesc/sort%3Dnewsdate/offset%3D0/format%
> 3Dfeed/searchlabel%3D-20RSS/type%3Drss
> >
> > So there is either something wrong with the rewrite instructions in
> > web.config, or a problem with Semantic Mediawiki and short urls. I think
> it
> > is the latter, since the rewrite works for other pages.
> >
> > LocalSettings.php:
> >
> > $wgScriptPath = "/w";
> > $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
> > $wgUsePathInfo = true;
> > ...
> > $smwgNamespaceIndex = 114;
> > enableSemantics('https://www.heurekaslu.se/wiki/', true);
> >
> > Rewrite in web.config:
> >
> > <rule name="wikiRule2" stopProcessing="true">
> > <match url="^wiki/(.*)$" />
> > <!--  Same problem wiht or without these conditions
> > <conditions>
> > <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
> > <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
> > </conditions>
> > -->
> > <action type="Rewrite" url="/w/index.php?title={UrlEncode:{R:1}}"
> > logRewrittenUrl="true" />
> > </rule>
> > <rule name="wikiRule3" stopProcessing="true">
> > <match url="^wiki/$" />
> > <action type="Rewrite" url="/w/index.php" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
> > </rule>
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