Posts: Computers and Technology / AllowEncodedSlashes in Apache

Read this if you are getting 404 errors when you encoded slashes in your urls.

Because idiotechnica uses a mod rewrite rule that grabs info in the second to the last path section and leaves the rest for the title, we have to url encode unexpected slashes in the title.

What I now know is that apache (probably for some security reason that ill find out about the hard way later) doesnt allow encoded slashes in urls. If it sees an encoded / it automatically 404s

The solution of course is to add AllowEncodedSlashes On to your config file or your htaccess or whatever.

Here is a link to the apache documentation on the switch.

http://httpd.apache.org/d....html#allowencodedslashes

Thanks! This is a HUGE help. Seriously.