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rakopoulos - 11/30/2009 3:39:28 AM
   
Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Hello,

I have the following issue. I am creating some pages tha thave Greek URLs. When I try to view them, they just don't work. I think that it is a IIS7 problem but I don't seem to have a solution. Anyone seen something like than? In Greek or any other language.

Thank you,
Dimitris

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kentico_zbysekn - 12/17/2009 8:18:48 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Hi Dimitris,
are you using extension less URLs? Because this problem may occur in case you are using extension-less/custom extensions and is related to IIS. In your IIS 7 in handlers configuration you should add new item similar to PageHandlerFactory-ISAPI-2.0 but with request path set to * otherwise if request go through custom error handler, IIS will broke the URL.
Best Regards,
Zbysek Nemec.

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rakopoulos - 12/17/2009 8:51:20 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Hello,

I am using only the Friendly URL extension defined on Site Manager. Nothing else.

If I go to my IIS > Handler Mappings I have a handler with path * (Type: file or folder) and hander: StaticFileModule,DefaultDocumentModule,DirectoryListingModule. Maybe this causes the problem.

Please note that the server is running Plesk and I have lots of handlers there.

Will the IIS7 URL Rewrite module fix this? If yes, with what rules?

Thank you for the help.

Dimitris

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Yehuda - 12/23/2009 11:48:58 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
I have the same problem.
To fix it, you should run in classic mode instead of integrated mode.

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rakopoulos - 12/23/2009 11:58:09 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
I changed it and i get an Internal Server Error.
Any ideas?

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kentico_helenag - 1/18/2010 6:18:23 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Hello,

could you please send us the related logs from IIS? It could help us to tell you more because not we are not sure what it could cause. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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rakopoulos - 1/22/2010 9:53:52 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Here is a log entry for this page. You will see that it is not an error. The code is 200. But the page does not display Greek characters. I see ????? instead of the Greek word.

2010-01-22 15:47:46 W3SVC5387 PORTALS GET /CMSPages/PortalTemplate.aspx aliaspath=/Various/??????????????????????? 80 administrator HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+U;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+10_6_2;+en-US)+AppleWebKit/532.5+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/4.0.249.49+Safari/532.5 _csoot=1261563306797;+_csuid=48f2f01c1a8ecbcb;+machine-id=212.205.236.120%3A1262855548166;+__qca=P0-1676583981-1263224140619;+meebo-cim=channel%3D145%26notdark%3D1%26bcookie%3D7f49f2e2120f8c5db717%26session%3D%255B%2522000000000000000000000000b882ff0aeb538j8pPb4d2986422d3beff94bd9e337c24f4a%2522%252C%2522%2522%252C22%252C1263224463574%255D;+ASP.NET_SessionId=z4fo2y45ks20uxbjn2vxtu45;+__utmz=1.1264083043.103.6.utmcsr=feedburner|utmcmd=feed|utmcct=Google%20Reader;+__utma_a2a=1.3132683820.1261566163.1264083043.1264083060.512;+CMSPreferredUICulture=en-us;+.ASPXFORMSAUTH=8F55A15DB5669193A5E4A766D9561D9ECDFE96996497E5A48721E2FCE93E28FA5C726B15D946DCAD86BCF48FEC09E6FF60560D69EA412582568181459A5BFCE5CC6A0739292695A24D15490E0F4DC99E147A2E1063F21C399F124A47687ACA8D;+CMSPreferredCulture=el-GR;+CurrentVisitStatus=2;+VisitorStatus=2;+__utma=1.1881736915.1258105129.1264083043.1264174971.104;+__utmc=1;+__utmb=1.3.10.1264174971;+PropertyTab=1;+ViewMode=2 - 200 0 0 4234 1601 249


Also see the source code of the page after I publish it. The url is: /Various/μεγαληδοκιμηκαιαλλακαλα.aspx


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1"><title>

</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" />

<style type="text/css">.debugControls table td, .debugControls table th { border: solid 1px #cccccc; }</style><style type="text/css">.debugTable td, .debugTable th { border: solid 1px #cccccc; }</style><style type="text/css">.debugTable td, .debugTable th { border: solid 1px #cccccc; }</style><style type="text/css">.debugTable td, .debugTable th { border: solid 1px #cccccc; }</style></head>
<body class="LTR Safari ELGR" >
<form method="post" action="/Various/μεγαληδοκιμηκαιαλλακαλα.aspx" id="form1">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" id="__EVENTTARGET" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" id="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUJNTg2MzA2MjY5ZBgDBR1kYmdFbGVtJFZpZXdTdGF0ZTEkZ3JpZFN0YXRlcw9nZAUbZGJnRWxlbSRDYWNoZUxvZzEkZ3JpZENhY2hlD2dkBR1kYmdFbGVtJFF1ZXJ5TG9nMSRncmlkUXVlcmllcw9nZKrUeQ+ICQcH634/zAqdZ+KZmhOt" />
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var theForm = document.forms['form1'];
if (!theForm) {
theForm = document.form1;
}
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() != false)) {
theForm.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theForm.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theForm.submit();
}
}
//]]>
</script>


<script src="/WebResource.axd?d=NHsLqJ-nkAWVgc2aHhYStQ2&t=633750622290014532" type="text/javascript"></script>

<div><input type="hidden" name="lng" id="lng" value="el-GR" />
</div>
<script src="/ScriptResource.axd?d=wOXM4WBQ42lpM9j3b_rp_4H7-ieST8tUsUFAQci0TpU8yREm-IJi0IrN6CFVfMyk6hne8eLvlrNrD4SZZdYIi5utjuMGw9wz4iC-3lB6Ud01&t=ffffffffa33d467d" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/ScriptResource.axd?d=wOXM4WBQ42lpM9j3b_rp_4H7-ieST8tUsUFAQci0TpU8yREm-IJi0IrN6CFVfMyk_OMjR8pn-0d_IDwTS8ruV-12bxXVrlWL-7ZknU8EKDg1&t=ffffffffa33d467d" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="manPortal">

</div><script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager._initialize('manScript', document.getElementById('form1'));
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance()._updateControls([], [], [], 90);
//]]>
</script>



<div class="debugControls">



</div>



<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
Sys.Application.initialize();
//]]>
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Let me know if you need anything else.

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kentico_helenag - 1/25/2010 2:58:04 AM
   
RE:Problem with Greek URLs and II7
Hello,

could you please check this article? Using Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and other language specific characters in document names

Unless it helps, you need to set up your server to be able to handle the Greek characters (UTF-8 should be able to handle them). Maybe this article could help you: http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html
Please note that this issue relates to IIS not Kentico CMS.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova