Messy URL and need to change

Long URL and 500 error message needs to be removed.

[rajnvr]

Hi Everyone-

I'm a newbie to this forum. i need your help.

I have received 500 error due to the following url.

http://www.example.com/my-account-panel/my-account.raw?view=sendcontact&pagelink=L3JlYW&propid=817&owneremail=

I need to rewrite the above url to
http://www.example.com

How can i do that in .htaccess file?

Thanks in advance.

[lucy24]

An URL by itself can't cause a 500 error. A 500 means the server is unhappy about something, most likely the wording of htaccess. (Been there. Done that.) If this is the only URL that triggers the error, then I would look at any RewriteCond attached to a RewriteRule affecting only this URL.

Also look at the script that handles query strings. Is it getting upset because of that trailing "owneremail=" nothing? Usually scripts can handle empty parameters.

Now then... You say "rewrite" but I strongly suspect you mean "redirect". Do you want the user's address bar to change?

Is it only that one specific URL that has to get rewritten/redirected? Or is there some pattern that you want to get rid of?

Be careful about redirecting too many different pages to the home page. You may want a brutal 410 instead.

And now...

Let's see what you've come up with so far. Maybe the 500 error will jump up and hit someone in the face.

[phranque]

if you have a 500 status code response there will be a corresponding error message in your server error log.

[rajnvr]

@lucy24-

Yes I would like to redirect based on the pattern "pagelink=L3JlYW". There are bunch of urls are giving this error.

Thanks

[rajnvr]

@phranque Yes. I did see message in server log like below

View not found [name, type, prefix]: sendcontact,html,plView

[rajnvr]

Thanks everyone. The issue is resolved after identifying the missing view. Thanks phranque. Here i have another challenge.

I have a url ends with %20target and i want to remove

for example my url is
http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/14.html%20target=

i want to redirect to
http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/14.html
. please help me

[phranque]

you're missing the closing quote on the href attribute of an anchor tag.
if it's an internally referred reques you should fix that first.

[lucy24]

... and if it's an external link you don't have to do anything. You're not obliged to fix other people's errors. Unless it's a very very important link from a site you badly need to be connected to. (In which case you should tell them, because they may have other errors of the same kind.)

[rajnvr]

Hi lucy/phranque- Its an internal link only.

however google webmaster notified there are bunch of links are errored out due to the same issue i have fixed the program but url indexed still remain with %20target=

[phranque]

by the way, welcome to WebmasterWorld, rajnvr!

what have you tried in your .htaccess to redirect that url?

[g1smd]

If you have fixed the linking, you can now return 410 Gone for those requests:

RewriteRule \%20 - [G]