Htaccess funny characters

[Flapjack]

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

[Entrusteddev]

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.

[Flapjack]

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

[Entrusteddev]

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.

[Flapjack]

Hi

I've already done away with our own embed linking facility and chosen addthis.

I'll have to read up on regexes.

thanks