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Bug on url rewriting

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Topic: Bug on url rewriting

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Bug on url rewriting
Date Posted: 10 April 2011 at 8:21pm

Using the latest version and Microsoft IIS7 url rewriting, if a forum name has a number in it, IE:

"Contstruct 2 Public Forum"

The numeric digit seems to cause it to read posts from category ID 2. It works fine if I take the number out.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 10 April 2011 at 8:23pm

Also a post with the title:

http://127.0.0.1/scirranew/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32680&title=plugin-input-system-v096b-21-03-2011-keybmousejoy - [PLUGIN] Input System v0.96b (21/03/2011): Keyb+Mouse+Joy

This doesn't work either

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 10:09am

This is very odd as this forums title has a number in it and is using the IIS 7 Rewrite Module 2.0 for the rewriting.

Will try and replicate the error in the lab.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 10:22am

Have attempted to replicate this in the lab but unable to. Below are the steps that tried to replicate the error:-

1. Web Wiz Forums 9.71
2. Web Wiz URL Rewrite 1.7 (web.config placed in forum root folder)
3. Uninstalled IIS 7 Rewrite Mod 2 then reinstalled using Web Platform Installer to insure the latest version of IIS 7 Rewrite Module is installed.
4. Create a forum called 'Contstruct 2 Public Forum'
5. Created a topic in this forum called '[PLUGIN] Input System v0.96b (21/03/2011): Keyb+Mo' (As the title was over 60 characters long it was truncated)

I then viewed both the forum and the topic and the URL rewriting worked showing the correct URL and page content.

/forum/forum_v9/contstruct-2-public-forum_forum6.html
/forum/forum_v9/plugin-input-system-v096b-21-03-2011-keybmo_topic23.html

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 11:04am

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for looking, it's a fresh forum install (latest version), latest version of IIS 7 Rewrite Module, and whatever version of the web wiz url rewrite was on your download page.

There's a chance some of my site wide rewrite rules are interfering with it, but I don't think this is the case but I'll check anyway tonight (I'm using Intelligencia rewrite for those) so I don't know if they are meddling with each other.

Thanks for looking though sorry if I wasted your time and it's my fault, I'll try and find out what's going on

Tom

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 11:14am

Quite often rewrite rules in a parent folder will interfere with those in sub folders, as this is quite a common issue with multiple applications on a single website that are using URL Rewriting, even when using different methods.

Try placing your forum in a sub domain so that it runs in a root and see if that solves the issue. If so then you know that another application using URL Rewrite on your website is interfering.

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 11 April 2011 at 11:26pm

Thanks Bruce, tremendously sorry for wasting your time, it was a rule interfering which is 100% my fault

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 April 2011 at 8:28am

No problem Gullanian, glad you found the issue.

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