Pages with non-ascii characters like öäå in name not found directly after commit

At least my setup on kapsi.fi always prints 404 Not Found after adding a page with non-ascii characters in name. But the page exists and is visible after the 404 with url encoding and the blog page is inlined correctly on the feed page.

Apparently ikiwiki.info does not complain with 404. Should the character encoding be set in wiki config?

Happens also after editing the page. Here's an example:

page name displayed in 404: http://mcfrisk.kapsi.fi/skiing/posts/Iso-Sy%F6te%20Freeride%202011%20Teaser.html?updated
page name in the blog feed: http://mcfrisk.kapsi.fi/skiing/posts/Iso-Sy%C3%B6te%20Freeride%202011%20Teaser.html

Difference is in the word Iso-Syöte. Pehaps also the browsers is part of the game, I use Iceweasel from Debian unstable with default settings.

I remember seeing this problem twice before, and both times it was caused by a bug in the web server configuration. I think at least one case it was due to an apache rewrite rule that did a redirect and mangled the correct encoding.

I recommend you check there. If you cannot find the problem with your web server, I recommend you get a http protocol dump while saving the page, and post it here for analysis. You could use tcpdump, or one of the browser plugins that allows examining the http protocol. --Joey

Server runs Debian 5.0.8 but I don't have access to the Apache configs. Here's the tcp stream from wireshark without cookie data, page name is testiä.html. I guess page name is in utf-8 but in redirect after post it is given to browser with 8859-1.

POST /ikiwiki.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: mcfrisk.kapsi.fi
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110107 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://mcfrisk.kapsi.fi/ikiwiki.cgi
Cookie: XXXX
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Length: 1456

-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_submitted"

2
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="do"

edit
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sid"

93c956725705aa0bbdff98e57efb28f4
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="from"


-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="rcsinfo"

5419fbf402e685643ca965d577dff3dafdd0fde9
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="page"

testi..
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="type"

mdwn
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="editcontent"

test
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="editmessage"


-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_submit"

Save Page
-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attachment"; filename=""
Content-Type: application/octet-stream


-----------------------------138059850619952014921977844406--
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:45:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2
Location: /testi%E4.html?updated
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=500
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain

GET /testi%E4.html?updated HTTP/1.1
Host: mcfrisk.kapsi.fi
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110107 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://mcfrisk.kapsi.fi/ikiwiki.cgi
Cookie: XXXX

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:45:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2
Content-Length: 279
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=499
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /testi..html was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2 Server at mcfrisk.kapsi.fi Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Getting the pages has worked every time:

GET /testi%C3%A4.html HTTP/1.1
Host: mcfrisk.kapsi.fi
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110107 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: XXXX
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:45:54 GMT
If-None-Match: "1b518d-7c0-49b51e5a55c5f"
Cache-Control: max-age=0

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:01:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=500
ETag: "1b518d-7c0-49b51e5a55c5f"