Author Link Redirect

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  salisburycamra · Member · Apr 30, 2019 at 9:32 am

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  Posts carry a link to the author. The link correctly points to:

  http://my-web-site/WordPress/author/firstname-lastname/

  but when the link is pressed there seems to be a redirect to:

  http://my-web-site/WordPress/author/firstname+lastname/

  which causes a 404. Editing the link in the browser to replace the ‘+’ (plus) with ‘-‘ (hyphen) works and the author’s profile is displayed.

  This site is running on a windows server and I know there are issues with using ‘+’ in urls but as far as I can see, ‘+’ should not feature anywhere!

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  stefanclin · Member · May 1, 2019 at 2:05 pm

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  Hi there,

  Can you share the link of the website that you are having problems with?

  Please note that in this forum we can only help with WordPress.com sites so if you have a self hosted WordPress.org website I recommend posting to the WordPress.org support forums for advice.

  Thanks
  Stefan

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  salisburycamra · Member · May 1, 2019 at 2:14 pm

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  Hi Stefan, it is a self-hosted site. I realised thepurpose of this forum after I posted! Just in case anyone finds this post in a search, my problem was an IIS issue where Microsoft is a little over-cautious in not allowing double escaping. Fixed with a mod to the web.config file:

  <security>
          <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true" />
  </security>
  

  This does however reduce site security.