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I have a question, facebook is appending ?ref=nf to my links and it’s breaking my links:

e.g. http://domain.com/someUniqueID?ref=nf

Any thoughts on a graceful way to strip that out?

Hi Gnuus,

1. Which version and build are you using?
2. In your system/expressionengine/config.php file what is set for $config[‘uri_protocol’]?

This may be a job for URL rewrite rules on your server, but let’s start with the above.

I.m on v2.1.3 Build:  20101220

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

I got the suggestion from someone on the CodeIgniter forum to put this in the index.php

if( stristr( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?ref=nf' ) ) {
        header( "location: http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . str_replace( '?ref=nf', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) );
        exit;
    }

...but it didn’t work for me.

Hi Gnuus,

In your system/expressionengine/config.php file what is set for $config[‘uri_protocol’]?

I changed the config from auto to path_info, but now it’s not displaying the right page!?

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

Please don’t change anything for now. What error or other message are you getting? Do you’ve got a link you can share with us?

Here is a link:

Example

After clicking you get an Error 404 page.

Have you changed anything? http://afpunt.nl/?/AF/comments/remco_campert seem to be working fine. I just got the page correctly (I assume, talking about the “dichter en schrijver Remco Campert”).

That’ strange, because click this on Facebook you get an error, but when you click the link here it’s allright!?

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://afpunt.nl/?/AF/comments/remco_campert&ref=nf&h=0a5c8

What error are you getting? If it’s a 404, can you show us the exact URL that led there?

As I mentioned before, it’s a 404 page.

When you go to http://www.facebook.com/AFpunt and you click on any of the images in the posts, you get the 404 error page.

Looks like I have no permission to view this page, unfortunately.

Yes, of course, on Facebook you have to become my friend first!

I don’t see anywhere to become your friend on Facebook. I tried. 😊 However troubleshooting Facebook links is sort of beyond the scope of this forum..