404 when article_url matches a section name in "Title only". Bug?

jakob · Today 09:30:06

You can reproduce this on the test demo (currently showing until next demo refresh on the hour):

Section = testing
Section is set to \Title url scheme
Article “testing” is assigned to the testing section.
Article “one-two-three” is assigned to the testing section.

Results:

\testing\testing   --> is found
\testing\2\testing --> is found
\testing\          --> shows landing page
\testing           --> 404 (but this is what I want)
\one-two-three     --> is found

I can work around it, of course, by changing either the section or article title. Is this a known anomaly?

Bloke · Today 10:05:13

Does the result change in your favour if you alter the Preference for trailing slashes?

jakob · Today 14:12:44

Thanks! Didn’t think of that.

But unfortunately that doesn’t help. While setting to “no” allows you to reach the URL, you get the landing page, not the article. Here’s an overview:

With trailing slashes set to no:

/testing/testing   --> page is found
/testing/testing/  --> 404 - not found
/testing           --> shows landing page
/testing/          --> 404 - not found

With trailing slashes set to yes:

/testing/testing   --> 404 - not found
/testing/testing/  --> is found
/testing           --> 404 - not found
/testing/          --> shows landing page

With trailing slashes set to list:

/testing/testing   --> page is found
/testing/testing/  --> page is found
/testing           --> 404 - not found (this should be the individual article, I think)
/one-two-three     --> page is found (individual article)
/testing/          --> shows landing page

etc · Today 14:45:09

That’s not exactly a bug, rather a processing simplification. If an article and a section have identical names, txp prepends its id to the article URL, even in title_only mode. Otherwise, in yes/no slash modes, there would be no mean to disambiguate. Tweaking it for list mode has some cost, namely because many url schemes can be used in parallel.

Bloke · Today 15:42:16

Yeah, there’s not much we can do if the title and section are identical, as Oleg says. Best solution is probably to rename the section slightly?

jakob · Today 16:15:13

etc wrote #342392:

That’s not exactly a bug, rather a processing simplification. If an article and a section have identical names, txp prepends its id to the article URL, even in title_only mode …

Bloke wrote #342393:

Best solution is probably to rename the section slightly?

Okay, thanks for clarifying that. I did, indeed, rename the section :-)

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