On Jan 15, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Oops...I just realized that I accidentally posted the
message below to
wikien-l. I'm reposting it here in the hope that someone can help me
out.
I'm trying to set up our MediaWiki site to use clean URLs and have run
into a snag. My pages take a long time to load and kick out a couple
of error messages that say "too many HTTP redirects" for the following
URLs:
First, update your code to the current 1.3.9 if you haven't already.
Your Special:Version indicates 1.3.7, which doesn't contain the fix for
generating correct URLs when $wgScriptPath is "" for a root-level wiki;
this leads to an infinite redirect loop due to the security checks for
a severe Internet Explorer bug which would allow for JavaScript attacks
which could at a minimum compromise user account information (this has
been discussed elsewhere on the lists, including recently on
mediawiki-l).
With the additional fix (added in 1.3.8) the URLs generated will be in
the form /index.php?title=-&raw=..... and should not loop unless you
have some other weird problem.
1.3.8 and 1.3.9 fix additional potential security problems with
uploads, so if you have uploads enabled you should have upgraded a long
time ago.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)