CleanURLs don't stay in the Browser bar and instead fall back

[LisAndi - Andi Becker - http://lisandi.com]

We have set

Clean URL settings
$cfg->cleanurluserdefault: u
$cfg->cleanurlgroupdefault: g
$cfg->cleanurlviewdefault: p
$cfg->cleanurlcharset: ASCII
$cfg->cleanurlinvalidcharacters: /[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/
$cfg->cleanurlvalidate: /^[a-z0-9-]*$/

and domain.name/u/userdisplayname falls back to its complicated old URL again and again and makes it very difficult to users to simply add a user created page to get direct to the page.

i.e. domain.name/u/userdisplayname/resume

instead again they have top eneterthat unrememberable difficult URL with question marks.

the .htaccess looks like

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on

    # if redirected to url cleaner, redirect to actual lookup file and
 # these lines will keep the clean url visible in the browser
 RewriteRule ^u/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ https://montessori.contact/user/view.php?profile=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
 RewriteRule ^u/([a-z0-9-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ https://montessori.contact/view/view.php?profile=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
 RewriteRule ^g/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ https://montessori.contact/group/view.php?homepage=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
 RewriteRule ^g/([a-z0-9-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ https://montessori.contact/view/view.php?homepage=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
 RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]

    # do not do anything if already existing file, symbolic link or directory
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

 </IfModule>

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

See also https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8869

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Also see bug 1933945 if this were a problem and needed testing.