phranque
msg:4518167 | 1:58 am on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
the URL should be percent-decoded by the time your RewriteRule sees it and the txt MapType uses a space as a delimiter so since your key may contain a space you will need to use a different MapType
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lucy24
msg:4518191 | 3:17 am on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| I also have a few pages with %20 (space) in the url as well |
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Lesson: Do not let your cat make your URLs. But spaces are easy: you just have to escape them, as you'd escape literal periods or parentheses. And even if escaped, a space can't be the very last thing on the line. 98,000 guesses how I know this.
Did you mean %E2%80%8B literally? I hope you're simply deleting it. Depending on context it's either a zero-width space or a misplaced BOM.
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phpmaven
msg:4518354 | 4:01 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Just to clarify, these are external links over which I have no control.
phranque, I've been doing quite a bit of research and I do see the different kinds of MapTypes and have seen some examples, but I don't quite understand how to do this. Can I have 2 different maps? One txt and the other one to handle the urls like the example I gave?
If you could give me an example of how I could handle the example url I gave, that would be great. That is a real example, other than part of it being changed. Maybe I'm being thick headed, but I can't quite understand how to do this.
Thanks,
Mark
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phranque
msg:4518462 | 10:11 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
how many of these redirects are there?
perhaps it would be simpler to handle these cases with RewriteRules and then the rest with a RewriteMap.
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phpmaven
msg:4518788 | 5:53 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
There are just a few. I could just do as you suggest. Can you give me a quick idea of how to do that. I'm not sure how to try and match against a URL like that.
Thanks,
Mark
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phranque
msg:4518859 | 9:30 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
depending on how many characters must be enumerated you could either use "Escape Sequences" or "Character Classes and other Special Escapes" to match those characters:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Regular-Expressions
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redhat
msg:4519978 | 10:35 am on Nov 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
The following message was cut out to new thread by incredibill. New thread at: apache/4519976.htm [webmasterworld.com]
2:52 pm on Nov 17, 2012 (PST -8)
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lucy24
msg:4519485 | 9:50 pm on Nov 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
A few specific, individual URLs-- or a few discrete categories of error? Have the percents been unescaped by the time they hit htaccess? It's tiresome if you have to say %(?:25)? every time.
What have you got so far?
:: detour to explore nasty suspicion that literal % signs really ought to be escaped, although I've got one RewriteRule that has them unescaped and it doesn't throw errors ::
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phpmaven
msg:4519522 | 12:12 am on Nov 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
There are just a few specific URLs
They are showing up in Webmaster Tools. This is specific example of one:
www,example.com/example_%E2%80%8Bpage.html
Mark
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lucy24
msg:4519565 | 3:34 am on Nov 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Good. Then you can toss the whole idea of the map. (I'm not sure anyone here really knows how to use them anyway. The usual advice when something gets horribly complicated is a built-to-order php script with optional database.)
When you do it without the map, what does your current RewriteRule look like?
Also and tangentially: When you say external links, do you mean real links from desirable sites that somehow got mistyped and they're not answering e-mail? Or are they URLs that exist only in google's fevered imagination? You don't want to get into a situation where you redirect one URL and then next week they make up a new one.
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webpilotz2
msg:4541235 | 8:45 am on Feb 1, 2013 (gmt 0) |
heres a solution that worked for me:
[webmasterworld.com...]
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