Segmented urls not working

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[quote author="gunter" date="1192887158"]
there are 2 things to change in the config.php to make it run at an IIS machine:

change $config[’uri_protocol’] = “AUTO”; to $config[’uri_protocol’] = “PATH_INFO”;

Hi, this is my first post here.

I was doing some research on a problem I had and found this post so I just wanted to let everyone know just incase they run into the same problem I did with MailChimp.

The URLs that are clicked when someone receives your newsletter will usually return a 404 or characters not allowed statement.

gunter came up with this little tidbit of information which helped me find the solution to the Mailchimp URLs.

In config.php find

Code:

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

and change this to $

Code:

config['uri_protocol']= 'ORIG_PATH_INFO';

which will fix the 404 problem.

For the characters not allowed problem find

Code:

$config['permitted_uri_chars']

in config.php and make it

Code:

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\+&-?';

Sorry no time for explanations right now but thanks a ton gunter for helping point my brain in the right direction