space in referrers link

[Dexie]

Another website links to me, which is ok, but there's a problem in the link and the webmaster is uncontactable.

On their link, they have:

href="http://www.example.com/oldpage%20"

In my .htaccess, I have :

RewriteRule ^oldpage\%20 http://www.example.com/newpage/ [R=301,L]

Jim did kindly try to help me before on this, but I seem to be going wrong somewhere, as it still doesn't work.

Any help much appreciated.

Dexie.

[jd01]

Maybe in this case, it would be better to use the implicit 'and everything else' like this:

RewriteRule ^oldpage http://www.example.com/newpage/ [R=301,L]

You might also try:
RewriteRule ^oldpage. http://www.example.com/newpage/ [R=301,L]

Justin

[Dexie]

Hi Justin,

Many thanks for the input, unfortunately they didn't work either ;-(

If it's any help, when I've tried other codes, it usually gives me an error page, but when I tried those codes you kindly suggested, it didn't even load any page, it just looked if it was going to?

Any help appreciated.

Dexie.

[jdMorgan]

Can you post the real local URL-paths of oldpage and newpage without revealing your site? We usually try to keep things anonymous here to protect our members, but in this case it may be interefering with our efforts.

If they are very similar, and using "oldpage" and "newpage" here is hiding important details of the URL-path structure, then this code may be putting your server in a loop or something.

Jim

[Dexie]

Hi Jim, I don't want to contravene any rules here as I find this an excellent place ;-) and I would prefer the site to not be mentioned for the moment. Sticky mail is in your inbox.

Dexie.

[jdMorgan]

The solution was:

RewriteRule ^oldpage\ $ http://www.example.com/newpage/ [R=301,L]