Fixes creation of pages when clicking on WikiLinks starting with "/".

IkiWiki/CGI.pm

@@ -304,8 +304,9 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 	# This untaint is safe because we check file_pruned.
 	my $page=$form->field('page');
 	$page=possibly_foolish_untaint($page);
+	my $absolute=($page =~ s#^/+##);
 	if (! defined $page || ! length $page ||
-	    file_pruned($page, $config{srcdir}) || $page=~/^\//) {
+	    file_pruned($page, $config{srcdir})) {
 		error("bad page name");
 	}
 
@@ -424,7 +425,8 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 			if (! defined $from || ! length $from ||
 			    $from ne $form->field('from') ||
 			    file_pruned($from, $config{srcdir}) ||
-			    $from=~/^\// ||
+			    $from=~/^\// || 
+			    $absolute ||
 			    $form->submitted eq "Preview") {
 				@page_locs=$best_loc=$page;
 			}

debian/changelog

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ikiwiki (2.54) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * template: Add support for a BASENAME variable.
+  * Fixes creation of pages when clicking on WikiLinks starting with "/".
 
  -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>  Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:30:33 -0700
 

doc/bugs/Can__39__t_create_root_page.mdwn

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ This type of page name (with leading slash) also gets created by the aggregate p
 > <current>/subdir/subpage, when a user clicks the "?" link to create
 > the missing page ; that's why I'm using absolute paths.
 >
+>> Totally agree, this had only not been addressed due to lack of time on
+>> my part. (I have about 50 ikiwiki things on my todo list.) --[[Joey]]
+>
 > Anyway, having the CGI consider invalid an otherwise valid wikilink
 > seems a bit weird to me, so I had a look to the code, and here is a
 > patch that should fix this issue ; I proceeded the only way I could
@@ -52,4 +55,8 @@ This type of page name (with leading slash) also gets created by the aggregate p
 	 				@page_locs=$best_loc=$page;
 	 			}
 
+
+> [[Applied|done]]. BTW, I also accept full git changesets, if you like
+> having your name in commit logs. :-)
+
 [[tag patch]]