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@@ -20,3 +20,14 @@ I am running ikiwiki 3.20100504~bpo50+1 on Debian Lenny.
 	Location: http://ciffer.net/~svend/ikiwiki.cgi?page=tech%252Fhosts&do=edit
 
 > You'll need to investigate why your web server is doing that... --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I have the following redirect
+>> in my Apache config.
+
+	RewriteEngine on
+	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.ciffer\.net$
+	RewriteRule /(.*) http://ciffer.net/$1 [L,R]
+
+>> and my ikiwiki url setting contained `www.ciffer.net`, which was causing the
+>> redirect. Correcting the url fixed the problem. I'm still not sure why
+>> Apache was mangling the URL. --[[Svend]]