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    Posted: 21 March 2016 at 5:52pm
Hi

I am getting HTTP 404's when looking at forums and topics on my website. The forum or topic will appear after a random number of clicks but its very annoying

This is on FireFox and IE.

Can you advise? Cant find anything in your KB

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It sounds like you have enabled URL Rewriting from the SEO settings page in the admin area.

This setting will use Friendly URL's in your forums that have .html page names, but requires that you install the 'Web Wiz Forums URL Rewrite' tool from the download page;

https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-downloads.htm

If you can not install the 'Web Wiz Forums URL Rewrite tool' then you would need top disable the URL Rewriting from the SEO settings page in the admin area.
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Hi

URL rewriting is disabled because although I switched it on for a previous issue... it caused further issues

http://forums.webwiz.net/malformed-url_topic31275_post153890.html?KW=#153890

But I can try again?
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I had a look at your website at http://www.rolling-maul.com and the URL's that are showing 404 errors are all ones that have ampersand '&' within the URL.

This appears to be some type of filtering being done on the server which is blocking these URL's with the ampersands from loading.

You should contact the server admin regrading this issue.
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The only software they have is http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/urlscan URLScan. Could this be it? This seems to be to stop SQL Server injection attacks and if so what can be done to get around this please?

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It is likely that the URL Scan would be causing the issue.

Unless your website is badly coded and is vulnerable to SQL Injections you should not need to use URL Scan to protect against SQL Injections.
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Hi
The URL Scan is switch off. The hosting company have said this...
 
When looking at the url when I view the source code, I can see the extra text before the title value e.g.

http://www.rolling-maul.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7148&FID=4&PR=3&title=please-read-board-rules-contact-details
This is not shown on all pages as some pages seem to load fine, which leads me to think that this is some for of code issue.

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This certainly looks to be a server issue.

The only thing I can suggest is that if you have no luck fixing the issue is that you look at moving the forum to our network.

Web Wiz Forums hosting packages can be found on the page below;

https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm
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