Htaccess funny characters
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Hi
Panda update,tickled, slapped and then punched us.
I'm now weeding through crawl errors, one of them is
http://www.flasharcadegamessite.com/26226-paper-airplane-flight.html">paper airplane flight
I tried 301 this to it's proper page using
Redirect 301 /26226-paper-airplane-flight.html">paper airplane flight http://www.flasharcadegamessite.com/26226-paper-airplane-flight.html
but the server starts spitting out 500 errors.
How does one add that rule into htaccess ?
thanks
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Hi
I've already done away with our own embed linking facility and chosen addthis.
I'll have to read up on regexes.
thanks
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You need to utilise some regex, though I'm unsure of the actual regex code to match ">
In future offer a service to embed a link, then bloggers etc will always get the right url and also you can control anchor text.
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Hi
The offending link is a french blogpost.
I have a bout 2-300 various links like this where people posting on sites etc have entered incorrect urls.
What I would like to know is how do I cater for ("/.>) characters in htaccess?
thanks
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You are probably experiencing this error because of the "> in the URL you are trying to redirect.
Looks like the crawl has highlighted the as an error as it may have found a malformed link linking to the Paper Airplane Flight page. It looks as though you have a link that may look as follows ">paper airplane flight Notice the extra "> after the link URL.
You need to find the offending link on the site and fix it. That will solve the error.
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