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Well turns out I’m not…

Any url with a ? query string doesn’t work now… for example: http://url.com/index.php?ACT=14 which is the page I go to when I try to log out, which means I can’t log out.

Any ideas how to get round this one?

Hi jamestowers,

Can you please go to Admin > System Administration > Output & Debugging and switch on “Force URL query strings” and then test this again.

Cheers

Greg

HI Greg,

I still get the “The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.” page I’m afraid.

Hi jamestowers,

Please check your mail.

Cheers

Greg

Thanks Greg,

I’ve forwarded the details you requested. In addition to the above, I have since changed $config[‘uri_protocol’] back to AUTO and things seem to be working OK but I’d still rather it worked without the query string if possible.

Hi James,

just to confirm here. Your original thread issue is working correctly now?
Which part are you wishing worked without a query string?

Using REQUEST_URI is something that needs to be used because of your hosting itself. Most shared hosts are fine with AUTO. GoDaddy a lot of the time needs this specifically added for you uri_protocol

Hi John,

It’s nearly working, all the functionality of the site seems t be there, but every url is in a query string form with url.com/index.php?.... It would be great if I could get it working without the ‘?’.

The hosting is with Dreamhost.

Forcing query strings has also messed up all the links to my javascript files

James, when it comes to GoDaddy, the reality is that in many cases you need to force URL query strings. If you don’t want to deal with that, then finding another host is an option. I typically recommend EngineHosting which will work better for you for only a few more dollars a month.

When you say problems with your javascript files, are you referring to javascript stored in an EE template or in a stand alone file?

Hi Sue,

I’m not actually using GoDaddy, I’m on Dreamhost and the Javascript files are in EE templates.

Is there not a way to just allow inverted commas in urls whilst still having $config[‘uri_protocol’] set to AUTO? I tried adding them to $config[‘permitted_uri_chars’] like so a-z 0-9~%.:_\-”?+= but that didn’t work.

jamestowers,

I just switched on Force URL query strings as as you say everything works fine with it on.
Dreamhost have always been a difficult one to get right and there are many issues regarding installs on them

I think for now unless you intend using a different host you will have to use the query string in your URL for your Super Search Module to function correctly

This morning I spent some time sorting out the rewrite rules to remove index.php, I did various things in the process of getting it working properly so I don’t know exactly what it was that did it but it’s all working fine now. I have $config[‘uri_protocol’] set to AUTO and Fore URL query strings set to false, so it’s working exactly as it should!
Strange.
Thanks for all your help everybody! I got there in the end…

That’s all that matters. Glad things are working again. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.