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Henrik Vincent 122 posts 616 karma points

Nov 02, 2015 @ 08:07

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redirect URL's with special characters

Hi there

As the title implies, I'm trying to find a workaround for redirecting URL's with special characters like commas.

Some months ago I migrated some old Umbraco 4 site to a new Umbraco 7 installation.

And now a bunch of our ol URL's ain't working no more, since Umbraco 7 ain't allowing commas in URL's.

I edited

So I want to ask you guys, if you've come across a fix to redirect all URL's with i.e. commas to their respective new URL's without the commas.

Example: http://www.firmabeskrivelser.dk/byggemarked-og-vvs/pergo-laminatgulv,-massivt-traegulv-og-mange-andre-gulvtyper/

should now redirct to

http://www.firmabeskrivelser.dk/byggemarked-og-vvs/pergo-laminatgulv-massivt-traegulv-og-mange-andre-gulvtyper/

The thing is that this site alone has like 3000-4000 posts, so changing them manually isn't an option.

Hope you can help me out here.

Kind regards Henrik

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Mike Chambers 636 posts 1253 karma points c-trib

Nov 02, 2015 @ 11:14
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if you have access to urlrewrite on your hosting platform then you can use that. or there is the urlrewriting.net component in umbraco http://wondergrub.com/articles/an-introduction-to-umbraco-urlrewriting/

something like this for urlrewrite in the web.config should cover 2 commas in the url, extend if you expect more.
```
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
      <rules>
                <rule name="test" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([^,]*)[,]*([^,]*)[,]*(.*)$" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}{R:2}{R:3}" />
                </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
```
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Henrik Vincent 122 posts 616 karma points

Nov 04, 2015 @ 09:30
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Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply.

Your snippet seems to be removing commas from the URL's as intended, but on the same time, the rule seems to be making a redirect loop, which results in the page not being accessible.

Is this something you've experienced before?

I tried adding the
```
<rewrite>
      <rules>
                <rule name="test" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([^,]*)[,]*([^,]*)[,]*(.*)$" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}{R:2}{R:3}" />
                </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
```
after

But regardless of the sections position, it's causing a redirect loop.
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Mike Chambers 636 posts 1253 karma points c-trib

Nov 05, 2015 @ 14:28
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sorry, hadn't actually tested it :-(

might need that first [,]* changing to a ,
```
<match url="^([^,]*),([^,]*)[,]*(.*)$" />
```
think the redirect loop is that it will match for urls with no commas too.. so changing that first one.. will mean only matches urls with at least one ,

If that's not it let me know.. then I'll check on a live environment.
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Henrik Vincent 122 posts 616 karma points

Nov 06, 2015 @ 13:13

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Thank you very much, Mike!

You saved my day :)

Works like a charm

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stevejack 3 posts 73 karma points

Jan 17, 2018 @ 10:57

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I also have some queries about the web.config redirection

i need to redirect

www.abc.com.au/"

to

www.abc.com.au

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Sumesh KP 35 posts 108 karma points c-trib

Jan 22, 2018 @ 11:48

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Hi Steve,

I have answered for your query here - https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-forms/90107-url-webconfig-special-symbol-redirection

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