Posted 3 years ago #
I was shown today that, as long as someone uses ~ges, things work fine.. but if, for some reason, like Blogger's codebase, something translates the ~ to %7E, you get a 404 error. I'm confused, as %7E is the encoding *for* a ~. Is there something I can do to have WP recognize this properly? I'm running WP2.0.1 on Apache 2.0.55, and PHP 4.4.2...
Thanks in advance!
Posted 3 years ago #
This has nothing to do with WP. You need to configure Apache either using Directory Aliases, or better yet Virtual Hosts.
Check out the following links for more info:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/urlmapping.html#user
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/
Regards
Posted 3 years ago #
Hi.. um.. I have the home directory stuff working. Perhaps I wasn't clear.
The URL is http://www.wingfoot.org/~ges/ this *WORKS*! Honest--it does!
Now, someone tried to link to me, but their software (Blogger) changes the ~ to a %7E (% 7 E in case it's not showing), and tries to pass that on as the URL. Instead of WP reading the %7E, and going "Oh yeah, that's a ~" it's going "Oh this isn't the right URL, so this is a 404!"
Hence my original question... Thank you for your reply, however. :)
Posted 3 years ago #
I'm going to see if I can recreate this:
http://www.wingfoot.org/~ges/ <--this works
http://www.wingfoot.org/%7Eges/ <--this doesn't...
Posted 3 years ago #
I realize that your website works with ~. The problem is that most systems will usually translate things like ~ ( ) and other characters into their ASCII value. Thats just how it works.
You could just as easily fix this by creating a "virtual host" or a subdomain line ges.wingfoot.org.
It is generally inadvisable to have "~" in the URL unless you're using the website on an internal network.
Regards
Posted 3 years ago #
I understand your opinion on ~ in URLs. It is, however, the default Userdir behavior on an Apache installation. The %7E and ~ are transparent to Apache--it's specifically WP that is reading %7E and ~ as being different. :-/
But, I thank you for your reply. I guess I'm going to have to live with WP's behaviour on this for now.
Thanks!
Posted 3 years ago #
Was this ever resolved? It's plaguing me as well.
Basically what I'm seeing happen is that a REQUEST_URI shows up as /%7Ewls/blog/, and while Apache it more than happy to deal with that, WordPress has some brain damage in recognizing that a URL with %7E in it is the same as one with a tilde in it.
Like you, any links using a tilde work:
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/
And, like you, any links using the escape encoding do not:
http://www.wwco.com/%7Ewls/blog/
Obviously Apache is delivering up a WordPress template, meaning it's found the directory. But it's the WordPress code that can't figure out the URL to pull up the correct entries.
I've tried poking around with mod_rewrite rules as well as WordPress's PHP code. At the moment I'm not having much luck, as I think the page determination code happens well before I get around to fixing the string to a familiar form.
Posted 3 years ago #
I came up with a simple one like hack that solved it, see
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2006/11/19/wordpress-tilde-hack-for-home-directories/ for more detail.
The gist is, inside index.php, insert this as the first line within the PHP tags:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = preg_replace( "/%7[Ee]/", "~", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
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