Every now and then somebody makes a link to one of my pages and they fat finger it.

For example, I saw this recently:

http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/861.html%2520

The /Bofcusm/861.html is fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to redirect that without getting a loop.

What I'd really like is a general rewrite to get rid of "%ANYTHINg" because there seem to be a lot of people who carelessly cut and paste links and pick up %20.. though where this %2520 came from, I have no idea.

What webserver?

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Ooops - sorry. Apache2.

I know it's probably Rewrite and I really, really need to spend the time to understand that. Just one more thing I haven't gotten to yet..

I saw this while Googling

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ (/.*?)(%20)+\ [NC]
RewriteRule . /$1 [R=301,L]

Bit that's only spaces.. I want ANY "%" sequence removed.

So I tried


RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ (/.*html)(\%.*)+\ [NC]
RewriteRule . /$1 [R=301,L]

Nope..

Try

RewriteRule (.*)\.html.+ $1.html [R=301]

Translation is

(.*) match all characters and store them in $1
\.html match only .html files
.+ match any characters at least 1 character in length
$1.html redirect to the (*.).html
[R=301] issue a 301 redirect so the user sees the .html page in the url instead of the .html%junk page

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Never mind - caching - it is working and thanks!!



Ok, so here is my config now:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^aplawrence\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://aplawrence.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule (.*)\.html.+ $1.html [R=301]

Not working - no condition?


Never mind - caching - it is working and thanks!!

No problem for further reading you should learn about regular expressions, apache rewrite rules are basically regexs.

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I know regex, but do not yet understand the flow of the mod_rewrite. It is obviously worth learning..