Forced /index.php and stripping of www

[bloggus]

Hi,

I have been using WP and WPMU with IIS6 and compatibility with mod_rewrite for years. No problem.

Also have been testing out laterst beta1 and today I decided to make a clean install of nightly build of the code.

This are the issues I discovered, divided in three section:

(dd32: Issue 1 has been split to #13106)

2. - Single Site

I also noticed immidiately, that the wite is stripped with "www", which is not that case with 2.9.2 . I don't see why this is done in asible site install at all? I think it is a bug in the single site install.

www.site1.com --> site1.com Work, but should not happen in single site mode.

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3. - Multi Site

After that I installed the network to see what is happening there. Immidiately I see that after setting up new htaccess rules and adding a few lines to config, as I should, and I know how to do, the www is not stripped but gives an 404-error in the browser.

site1.com works!

www.site1.com --> 404-error in the browser. Something is broken. I see in chrome that it redirects me to ​http://site1.com/wp-signup.php?new=www which gives this 404 error.

I go further creating a site (a new blog), testblog, and even here I see a error:

testblog.site1.com works
www.testblog.site1.com --> This should be stripp with www at least, but instead taking me to the signup-page with "www.testblog" as a new blog suggestion.

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So I see something happened the last days, since an install was working just fine, just like current WPMU 2.9.2, but something has changed the whole setup suddenly.

WWW has never been allowed in multisite.

I agree we probably should adjust index.php handling, but note that MU never handled PATHINFO links properly it seems.

nacin

Yes, but www.subdomain.domain.com and www.domain.com have always been redirected to subdomain.domain.com and domain.com , but now there are giving errors - that have never happended before.

www.domain.com ->> 404 error
www.subdomain.domain.com --> redirect to signup with new subdomain "www.subdomain"

This is not the usual behaviour of multi site.

I'm going to split this ticket into 2, One related to the www's, and one for index.php/ permalinks. Its best to have a single issue per ticket to allow for both to be independently fixed.

Issue 1 moved to #13106