Author: qleah
Description:
For example, when searching for "ant lion", Special:Search produces the following HTML:
<p class='subtitle'>You searched for "<a href="/wiki/ant lion">ant lion</a>" <a href="/wiki/Special:Allpages/ant lion">[Index]</a></p>
The server does not recognize URLs containing spaces; in browsers that do not replace spaces with %20, these links will fail.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ant lion
wegge wrote:
(In reply to comment #0)
For example, when searching for "ant lion", Special:Search produces the
following HTML:
<p class='subtitle'>You searched for "<a href="/wiki/ant lion">ant lion</a>"
<a href="/wiki/Special:Allpages/ant lion">[Index]</a></p>
The server does not recognize URLs containing spaces; in browsers that do not
replace spaces with %20, these links will fail.
This is not a MediaWiki bug, but rather a configuration error. The text on the
results page are inserted from [[MediaWiki:Searchquery]], where $1 is replaced
with the search term. If a valid link to a page named after the search term is
desired, it should be put in [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]], where $1 is replaced with
a suitable URL for the term, and $2 is replaced with the search term in an
HTML-escaped form.
Please note that this description is valid for MediaWiki 1.4 only. In the
current development version, $1 in MediaWiki:Nogomatch is replaced with :<search
term>, and the whole text is then parsed as wiki marup.