Hi,

The alias of this survey was working fine until I've updated the thank you page.

What do you mean by "updated the thank you page".
Can you describe more?

I've no other survey where the alias is set to test if that is still working correctly.

If you create a plain new survey and set the alias, does it work?

Thanks

Hi,

With thank you page I mean on the Text elements page of a survey I have edited the End message. Pressed Save and the alias stopped working.

I've made a brand new survey and added an alias but also get an 404 page of the Apache webserver. Same result as with existing survey with Alias set.

Will try to reproduce.

We were not able to reproduce it.
Can you review the htaccess file?

The .htaccess files has not changed since 15-9-2021. No rights issue.
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1091 Sep 15 2021 .htaccess

Content:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

# deny access to hidden files and directories except .well-known
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.+ - [F]

# deny access to composer.json that is used for remote fingerprinting
RewriteRule ^composer.json - [F]

</IfModule>

deny access to hidden files and directories without mod_rewrite

RedirectMatch 403 ^/(?!.well-known/)(.*/)?.+

General setting to properly handle LimeSurvey paths

AcceptPathInfo on

XSS protection

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
<FilesMatch ".(svgz?)$">
Header set Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'none'; frame-ancestors 'none'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Disable Multiviews (issue 16859)

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>

Hope this gives any help? Should setting an alias change the .htaccess file?

If you go to demo.limesurvey.org, are you able to reproduce the issue?

On demo.limesurvey.org Limesurvey 6 is running but setting an alias will change the url from r=survey/index&sid=123456&lang=en to ?r=test (both work fine, nginx is used as server).
On my server running Limesurvey 5.6.24+230531 & Apache2 it will change /index.php/123456?lang=en to /testalias which does not work. index.php/testalias works fine though.
In my config 'showScriptName' => true is set. Which means that if an alias is set the url should change to index.php/testalias in the Overview (expected behavior) and not an alias without index.php.

mod_rewrite is enabled but cannot get limesurvey to run with 'showScriptName' => false without getting 404s for URL without index.php.

mod_rewrite is enabled but cannot get limesurvey to run with 'showScriptName' => false without getting 404s for URL without index.php.

You can't get LS to run? or just the alias url?

LS runs great for years. Only alias url won't work.

On my server running Limesurvey 5.6.24+230531 & Apache2 it will change /index.php/123456?lang=en to /testalias which does not work. index.php/testalias works fine though.
In my config 'showScriptName' => true is set. Which means that if an alias is set the url should change to index.php/testalias in the Overview (expected behavior) and not an alias without index.php.

That is expected as to allow the most friendly url possible.
Have you checked your apache rules? Maybe something that is interferring?

mod_rewrite is enabled but cannot get limesurvey to run with 'showScriptName' => false without getting 404s

'showScriptName' => false is malfunctioning for alias only or for all LS installation?

Which Apache rules do you mean? .httaccess (= default limesurvey) or the .conf for th limesurvey domain (vhost)?
Which part should I check for?

The showscriptname = false breaks whole LS.

Which Apache rules do you mean? .httaccess (= default limesurvey) or the .conf for th limesurvey domain (vhost)?
Which part should I check for?

Both I think.
Could be one or the other.

The showscriptname = false breaks whole LS.

Then it is not a matter of the alias. I think it is a web server config issue.
Please, make sure you have the default htaccess

Hello jljansen,
This ticket has been open for quite some time.
Do you have any new info / feedback?
Can you please check if this issue still exists in the latest version of LimeSurvey and let us know?
Thank you!