Page Or Blog Titles with Spaces Do Not Work with IIS

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Unable to render {include} The included page could not be found.

Symptoms

Page or blog titles with spaces won't work when How to setup Confluence with IIS.

Cause

The IIS7 request filter rejects URLs containing + characters due to its security setting.

Resolution

Turn off the doubleEscaping feature for Confluence, for your site or for the whole server. Here is an example:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/requestfiltering -allowDoubleEscaping:true

See also Microsoft's knowledge base article.


Last modified on Feb 26, 2016

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