Thread:User talk:Dantman/delted page please restore/reply

That page was full of bad advice. Every last section on that page had horrible recommendations that are 100% unnecessary if one uses proper rewrite rules without the ?title=$1 from the start.

Try using the rules at Manual:Short URL/Apache they should work without having any issues with & or +. If you have any issue with the rule try to describe it to me and I'll see if I can fix it.

If your wiki is 1.17+ and publicly visible you can also use http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ to get basically the same rules as those on that page.