Is it possible to create page with slash ("/") in name?

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Hi!
Want to create page “Export/Import” but got error:

# HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request
**Type** Status Report
**Message** Invalid URI: noSlash
**Description** The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).
### Apache Tomcat/9.0.16 (Debian)

Is it possible to create page with such title?

Regards, Vadim

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oops, find https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/InstallationWAR/InstallationTomcat/#HAllowing222F22and225C22inpagenames link myself, will try now…

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XWiki support it by default but the issue here is actually on tomcat side, see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/InstallationWAR/InstallationTomcat/#HAllowing222F22and225C22inpagenames.

Note that in the coming 12.0 version we started to disable creating page with “/” by default (mostly because of too many WTF reports caused by Tomcat silly default configuration) but it’s configurable.

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Thank you Thomas!
If it will be deprecated in 12+ versions It is more safe not to use such symbols in page names…

Regards, Vadim

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Note that I’m refering to page name (which end up in the URL) and not the page title which will still allow anything and which is what you see most of the time (you can control both separately when you are advanced user in your user preferences).

Also the idea is not really to deprecate it, just prevent it by default to avoid any problem caused by things like Tomcat but we don’t plan to drop the current “you can put anything in page reference” XWiki philosophy anytime soon.