Page Or Blog Titles with Spaces Do Not Work with IIS
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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.
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