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On a site that I recently upgraded from 1.x to 2.x the URL titles that have a period in them suddenly don’t work anymore and give a 404 error.

Is there something in the new EE that I need to activate to allow this?

New entries continue to generate URL titles with periods, so I think it should work.

Thanks.

eeart,

What build are you currently using?

In your system/expressionengine/config/config.php can you change

$config['uri_protocol']    = 'AUTO';

to

$config['uri_protocol']    = 'PATH_INFO';

and see if that makes a difference

Changing it to PATH_INFO caused every URL to return the homepage.

I changed it to QUERY_STRING now, and that seems to have fixed the problem.

Are there any disadvantages to QUERY_STRING over AUTO? What is the difference?

Thanks.

On a well-configured server AUTO should determine the best available method. Where that’s not an option setting it explicitly, as you have done, would be the way to go. There are no further disadvantages to this.

Thank you both.

My pleasure. Post again as needed, please.