Recent Discussions Link has backslash in it (index.php?p=/\discussions)

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• hynsey New

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  OK, so a bit of progress. I added this line to the config.php file (even though the upgrade instructions said to remove if present, which it wasn't):

  $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = true;
  

  No all urls are pretty and nice, except the recent discussions link links to https://discussions . All other links appear fine.

  On IIS, I have this web.config entry for url rewrites:

  <rewrite>
       <rules>		  
        <rule name="Vanilla Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
         <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
         <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
         </conditions>
         <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php\?p={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
        </rule>
       </rules>
      </rewrite>
  

  Anyone got any ideas? :)

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• Shadowdare r_j MVP

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  I'm running a Vanilla 2.8.1 forum on IIS as well. See a post I recently wrote about my initial setup here: https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/256031/#Comment_256031

  Here is the rewrite rule I use for routing to index.php:

  <rewrite>
     <rules>
        <rule name="Vanilla route controllers to index.php">
           <match url=".*" />
           <conditions>
              <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
              <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
           </conditions>
           <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />
        </rule>
     </rules>
  </rewrite>
  

  Setting Garden.RewriteUrls setting in config.php to true still works for now, but I bet they will switch to using only the X_REWRITE environment variable to enable URL rewrites in the future. What I do is put the site that's running Vanilla in IIS in its own application pool.

  You can set an environment variable specifically to an app pool by going to the IIS root -> Configuration Editor -> enter section "system.applicationHost/applicationPools" and open (Collections) -> click on your app pool to see its properties -> click environmentVariables -> add a variable named X_REWRITE with value of 1.

  A quicker way to do is set it via this command in the command prompt or PowerShell (change MyVanillaAppPool to your app pool's name):

  appcmd.axe set config -section:system.applicationHost/applicationPools /+"[name='MyVanillaAppPool'].environmentVariables.[name='X_REWRITE',value='1']" /commit:apphost
  

  Edit: replace appcmd.axe (axe part with e instead of a) (for some reason the Cloudflare settings here prevents me from typing it out).

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• Shadowdare r_j MVP

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  I also see the bug with the discussions link being outputted as "https://discussions", but only in the sidebar menu (DiscussionFilter module). The links seems fine in the header menu and in other places. Is it just happening in the sidebar for you too? I investigated the issue and filed a bug report on GitHub here: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/8551

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• hynsey New

  April 2020

  https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/256299#Comment_256299

  Hi Shadowdare,

  Apologies I thought I had notifications on for comments on my discussions, but I didn't. Yes, this is only in the sidebar for me.

  I've just checked the bug report has been closed 17 days ago as it's gone stale :( Did you get anywhere on this?

  I've since upgraded to 3.2 and still face the same issue.

  Cheers.

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