Redirect old ASPX URL with commas to new PHP URL

Question

I've searched around quite a bit for this, but haven't come across my exact issue.

I recently rebuilt an old .aspx site into WordPress, changing essentially every URL on the site. I have all the redirects in place, except there are a few URL's with commas in them that I can't seem to get to redirect.

The URLs with the commas display an Apache "Forbidden" page.

For example, I have the URL: /resourceslearn/tools/checklists,-tips,-tools/whitepapers.aspx that I need redirected to /whitepapers/

I'm not very good with regular expressions, let alone htaccess rules, so please forgive me if what I have tried is completely wrong.

I've tried the following rules:

Redirect 301 /resourceslearn/tools/checklists(.+)-tips(.+)-tools/whitepapers.aspx$ /whitepapers/

Redirect 301 /resourceslearn/tools/checklists([^/]+)-tips([^/]+)-tools/whitepapers.aspx$ /whitepapers/

Redirect 301 /resourceslearn/tools/checklists,-tips([^/]+)-tools/whitepapers.aspx$ /whitepapers/

Redirect 301 /resourceslearn/tools/checklists([^,/]+)-tips([^,/]+)-tools/whitepapers.aspx$ /whitepapers/

Can anyone give me some assistance on how I can detect the comma in the URL and redirect it to the proper page?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '16 at 15:57

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You can not use Regex in Redirect , try RedirectMatch instead

RedirectMatch 301 ^/resourceslearn/tools/checklists(.+)-tips(.+)-tools/whitepapers.aspx$ /whitepapers/

Reference :

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html

answered Jun 24 '16 at 15:57

Amit Verma

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Good to know, thanks. Unfortunately it still returns the Forbidden error page. – Ty Bailey Jun 24 '16 at 16:04
I tried an incognito browser so cache shouldn't be an issue. I'm using the WP Super Cache plugin, would that cache the htaccess file? – Ty Bailey Jun 24 '16 at 16:09
Do you have any other directives in htaccess? – Amit Verma Jun 24 '16 at 16:10
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Ah, I did! I had a security redirect in place that blocked commas. Thank you for your help. The `RedirectMatch` worked. – Ty Bailey Jun 24 '16 at 16:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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Redirect doesn't use regular expressions, just a URL-path. This means, you can take the path literally

Redirect /resourceslearn/tools/checklists,-tips,-tools/whitepapers.aspx /whitepapers/

When it works as it should, you may replace the status code with 301. Never test with R=301.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Jun 24 '16 at 16:05

Olaf Dietsche

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I have tested this redirect on my system and it works properly, so there must be some other rules or redirects in your htaccess. – Olaf Dietsche Jun 24 '16 at 16:10

Redirect old ASPX URL with commas to new PHP URL

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