diff --git a/inc/indexer.php b/inc/indexer.php
index 4a5d0b4e2d6c20717f58f9f68d317b9bbfb37591..9af4b5b84585dbfc52ca60b2680ed3f1f9656c97 100644
--- a/inc/indexer.php
+++ b/inc/indexer.php
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ function idx_parseIndexLine(&$page_idx,$line){
         $doc = trim($page_idx[$doc]);
         if(!$doc) continue;
         // make sure the document still exists
-        if(!@file_exists(wikiFN($doc))) continue;
+        if(!@file_exists(wikiFN($doc,'',false))) continue;
 
         $result[$doc] = $cnt;
     }
diff --git a/inc/pageutils.php b/inc/pageutils.php
index 2055cf2ccecc240520476c505ba876bc564fc9b0..c2cd29bf1e4cafee4d183796165d28cc80f80d1b 100644
--- a/inc/pageutils.php
+++ b/inc/pageutils.php
@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ function noNS($id) {
  *
  * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
  */
-function wikiFN($id,$rev=''){
+function wikiFN($id,$rev='',$clean=true){
   global $conf;
-  $id = cleanID($id);
+  if ($clean) $id = cleanID($id);
   $id = str_replace(':','/',$id);
   if(empty($rev)){
     $fn = $conf['datadir'].'/'.utf8_encodeFN($id).'.txt';