fix

packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   normalizeFrontMatterTags,
   groupTaggedItems,
   getContentPathList,
+  sanitizeURL,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import type {LoadContext} from '@docusaurus/types';
 import {validateBlogPostFrontMatter} from './blogFrontMatter';
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ async function processBlogSourceFile(
   const title = frontMatter.title ?? contentTitle ?? parsedBlogFileName.text;
   const description = frontMatter.description ?? excerpt ?? '';
 
-  const slug = frontMatter.slug || parsedBlogFileName.slug;
+  const slug = sanitizeURL(frontMatter.slug || parsedBlogFileName.slug);
 
   const permalink = normalizeUrl([baseUrl, routeBasePath, slug]);
 

packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/src/slug.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   addTrailingSlash,
   isValidPathname,
   resolvePathname,
+  sanitizeURL,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import {
   DefaultNumberPrefixParser,
@@ -66,10 +67,10 @@ export default function getSlug({
       throw new Error(
         `We couldn't compute a valid slug for document with id "${baseID}" in "${sourceDirName}" directory.
 The slug we computed looks invalid: ${slug}.
-Maybe your slug front matter is incorrect or you use weird chars in the file path?
+Maybe your slug front matter is incorrect or you used weird chars in the file path?
-By using the slug front matter, you should be able to fix this error, by using the slug of your choice:
+By using the slug front matter, you should be able to fix this error:
 
-Example =>
+Example:
 ---
 slug: /my/customDocPath
 ---
@@ -79,5 +80,5 @@ slug: /my/customDocPath
     return slug;
   }
 
-  return ensureValidSlug(computeSlug());
+  return ensureValidSlug(sanitizeURL(computeSlug()));
 }

packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import path from 'path';
 import {
+  sanitizeURL,
   encodePath,
   fileToPath,
   aliasedSitePath,
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ export default async function pluginContentPages(
         const permalink = normalizeUrl([
           baseUrl,
           options.routeBasePath,
-          encodePath(fileToPath(relativeSource)),
+          encodePath(sanitizeURL(fileToPath(relativeSource))),
         ]);
         if (isMarkdownSource(relativeSource)) {
           const content = await fs.readFile(source, 'utf-8');

packages/docusaurus-utils/src/__tests__/urlUtils.test.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-import {normalizeUrl, getEditUrl} from '../urlUtils';
+import {normalizeUrl, getEditUrl, sanitizeURL} from '../urlUtils';
 
 describe('normalizeUrl', () => {
   test('should normalize urls correctly', () => {
@@ -132,6 +132,18 @@ describe('normalizeUrl', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('sanitizeURL', () => {
+  test('sanitize paths that are RR dynamic routes', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeURL('/:user')).toEqual('/user');
+    expect(sanitizeURL('/f{u}')).toEqual('/fu');
+    expect(sanitizeURL('/a(1)')).toEqual('/a1');
+  });
+  test('do not sanitize paths that can be encoded', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeURL('/a:b')).toEqual('/a:b');
+    expect(sanitizeURL('/你好')).toEqual('/你好');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('getEditUrl', () => {
   test('returns right path', () => {
     expect(

packages/docusaurus-utils/src/urlUtils.ts

@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ export function normalizeUrl(rawUrls: string[]): string {
   return str;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Some slugs that seem valid may be dynamic routes for React router. We sanitize these paths.
+ */
+export function sanitizeURL(url: string): string {
+  return url.replace(/(?:(?<=\/):)|[()*[\]{}]/g, '');
+}
+
 export function getEditUrl(
   fileRelativePath: string,
   editUrl?: string,

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/[bracket].md

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Filename with brackets
+
+I don't actually represent any React router quirks, but it's funny that I can end up not being sanitized

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/_category_.yml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+label: Weird paths

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/colon-file.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+# Windows doesn't allow filepaths containing :
+slug: :file
+---
+
+# Filename with leading colon

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/file (paren).md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# Filename with parentheses

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/file-aster.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+# Windows doesn't allow filepaths containing *
+slug: file*aster
+---
+
+# Filename with asterisk

website/_dogfooding/_docs tests/weird-paths/weird-paths/{brace}.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# Filename with braces

website/_dogfooding/docs-tests-sidebars.js

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ const sidebars = {
           dirName: 'tests',
         },
         {
+          type: 'autogenerated',
+          dirName: 'weird-paths',
+        },
+        {
           type: 'link',
           label: 'External Link test',
           href: 'https://docusaurus.io',