Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Fix for the ampersand problem

Hi,

I've got a mediawiki 1.17 instance running under IIS 7.5, and I think there's a solution for the ampersand problem on this platform. (I tried redirecting to just /index.php as the info box suggests, but that didn't fix it -- everything redirected to the home page). The fix is to have the web server re-url encode the incoming url before appending to the rewrite. In IIS, this looks like (solution from StackOverflow): index.php?title={UrlEncode:{R:1}} rather than just index.php?title={R:1} SO also appears to have a solution under apache, but I don't have an apache to hand to check that this works.

Should these fixes be included on this page, or perhaps as part of the install manual (if they're not there already; I can't remember where it is -- I've not done an install for a while)?

Thanks,