probably the fault of IIS -> switch to apache
I am using MediaWiki 1.35 specifically because I am new to all this, and Visual Editor is supposed to work out of the box.
But whenever I try to edit or create a page with an Umlaut (ä,ö,ü) in the title. I get Error 500 when saveing my Changes to the page.
its a fresh install on IIS and MySQL if that matters.
Is this a known problem, or can somebody help me out?
Thanks very much
I can just guess that the problem might be in DB and its coding. What Version of DB do you use?
i think its unlikely to be your database. You should check your iis logs and php error logs.
IIS used to be famous for poor support for non ascii characters when using rewrite rules, but presumably they have fixed it by this point. If you have the option i would reccomend using apache instead of IIS, even if using windows (mediawiki is better tested on apache)
Hello and thanks for the replies.
i just double checked, the Database and the IIS are both set to use UTF-8 encoding. And the sitename gets stored properly in the DB.
I just had to bite the bullet and switch to Apache. it works now
perhaps this issue will help:
It mentions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269673
and the solution at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2277918/fix-a-php-application-that-depends-on-the-request-uri-server-variable
