XF 2.1 404 Page not found on lots of links after migration. Leading and trailing slashes needed.

Stuart Wright

Stuart Wright

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So we had a whole bunch of internal links to pages like
href="pages/privacy-policy/"
which are broken with XF2. They need a leading slash
href="/pages/privacy-policy/"
or they 404 page not found.
Is this a Xenforo 2 thing? A setting somewhere?
I think it might be causing a whole bunch of issues because we're getting lots of junk URLs reported in the 404 log.
E.g.
Code: 
https://www.avforums.com/threads/alloy-repair.318860/review/sony-kd-65a1-a1-a1e-bravia-uhd-4k-oled-hdr-tv-review.13313
which has a valid URL
Code: 
https://www.avforums.com/threads/alloy-repair.318860/
with an invalid internal looking URL appended
review/sony-kd-65a1-a1-a1e-bravia-uhd-4k-oled-hdr-tv-review.13313
although
Code: 
https://www.avforums.com/review/sony-kd-65a1-a1-a1e-bravia-uhd-4k-oled-hdr-tv-review.13313
is valid.
Really strange.
Could it be that all non-slash-prefixed links on that page link to the page URL plus the link?
Any idea what the hell is going on?

Similarly inbound links to pages like
www.avforums.com

Privacy Policy

www.avforums.com www.avforums.com
without the trailing slash are now broken. Loooooots of links.
With XF1, they appear to have been rewritten to
www.avforums.com

Privacy Policy

www.avforums.com www.avforums.com
and worked. Or just worked without the trailing slash.
Again, is this a Xenforo 2 thing or something related to how the server needs setting up now?
Those pages were fine with Xenforo 1.

If it's a case of asking my hosts to alter nginx to append a trailing slash to every inbound url where there isn't one, I can do that.
But I would have thought Xenforo would be able to do it if it's required.

Similar issue mentioned here:
xenforo.com

XF 2.0 - Make pages work without trailing slash?

Is there a way to make it so pages will work without a trailing slash? For example, even on this forum https://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page/ will work while https://xenforo.com/community/pages/example-page will not. I used the route filter to change my example.com/pages/page1 to...
xenforo.com xenforo.com
xenforo.com

Fixed - Inconsistent 404 behavior with ending slash in /tags route

404 - https://xenforo.com/community/tags/customization works - https://xenforo.com/community/tags/customization/ works - https://xenforo.com/community/forums/bugs works - https://xenforo.com/community/forums/bugs/
xenforo.com xenforo.com
Thanks in advance.
 
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XF 1 included a base tag in the output, which controlled the base for relative URLs in anchors.

Because this caused a few issues, XF2 doesn’t include this tag, so all relative URLs are relative to the current page. You’d either have to re-add the base tag, or update the relative URLs to include the leading slash, so as to be relative to the root domain path - or, even better, have them be rendered through the templates using the relevant syntax.

Your second issue isn’t the same, though - that’s just how string parameters work in XF2. The trailing slash is needed to its interpreted as a string parameter, rather than a route.

(You’ve also got some old XF1 template syntax in your privacy policy, by the way.)

Liam
 
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Thanks Liam.
Because all the links in many pages have been indexed by Google, I ought to re-add the base tag.
Is there a method of doing that without an addon?

Also what's the best way to tackle inbound links missing the trailing slash? Must be able to do something rather than spit out a 404.

Liam W said:
(You’ve also got some old XF1 template syntax in your privacy policy, by the way.)
Click to expand...
Tell me about it. Like a **** ton of links and toggle triggers in pages scattered all over the place. Working my way through them.

@tiredjohn should have look at this.
 
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