question mark is incorrectly removed from end of url

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question mark is incorrectly removed from end of url

Postby osaka73 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:41 am

I have a string after my URL.
ex: forum.html?mark=read

But in some instances the question mark is being removed resulting in forum.htmlmark=read

To be more exact, this is what I have in my .htaccess:
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RewriteEngine on
# Fix bookmarks
RewriteRule ^(.*\.html[-]?)\&(.*)$      http://www.somedomain.com/forums/$1?$2      [R=301,NC,L]


# Fix google indexed data
RewriteRule ^post-(.+).html$            http://www.somedomain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1      [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^about(.+).html$            http://www.somedomain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1      [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^forum-(.+).html$            http://www.somedomain.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=$1      [R=301,NC,L]

# Apply current SEO mod
Rewriterule ^(.+)-f([0-9]*).html-(.+)$            ./viewforum.php?f=$2&$3
Rewriterule ^(.+)-(t|p)([0-9]*).html-(.+)$         ./viewtopic.php?$2=$3&$4
Rewriterule ^(.+)-f([0-9]*)s([0-9]*).html-(.+)$      ./viewforum.php?f=$2&start=$3&$4
Rewriterule ^(.+)-(t|p)([0-9]*)s([0-9]*).html-(.+)$   ./viewtopic.php?$2=$3&start=$4&$5

Rewriterule ^(.+)-f([0-9]*).html$               ./viewforum.php?f=$2&$3
Rewriterule ^(.+)-(t|p)([0-9]*).html$            ./viewtopic.php?$2=$3&$4
Rewriterule ^(.+)-f([0-9]*)s([0-9]*).html$         ./viewforum.php?f=$2&start=$3&$4
Rewriterule ^(.+)-(t|p)([0-9]*)s([0-9]*).html$      ./viewtopic.php?$2=$3&start=$4&$5


The two exact problems are:
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http://www.somedomain.com/forums/support-f100.htmlsk=t&sd=d
(missing question mark after html)
http://www.somedomain.com/forums/support-f100.htmlmark=topics
(missing question mark after html)


I could really use some help on resolving this, as it's creating so many page not found errors. Thanks in advance for any direction, advice, or solutions.
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Re: question mark is incorrectly removed from end of url

Postby DanielStutzbach » Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:44 am

osaka73 wrote:The two exact problems are:
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http://www.somedomain.com/forums/support-f100.htmlsk=t&sd=d
(missing question mark after html)
http://www.somedomain.com/forums/support-f100.htmlmark=topics
(missing question mark after html)



Do you know what the URLS were originally, that are being redirected to those incorrect URLs?
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Postby osaka73 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:00 am

I think so.

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http://www.somedomain.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=100&sk=t&sd=d

and

http://www.somedomain.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=100&mark=topics


I actually tried these original urls on my domain, and they both worked correctly, so I'm pretty positive that the above are the original URLs.
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Postby richardk » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:02 am

What are the links like in the page's HTML source code? Do they have a ? in them?

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Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

# Fix bookmarks
RewriteRule ^(.+\.html-?)\&(.+)$ http://www.example.com/forums/$1?$2 [NC,R=301,L]

# Fix google indexed data
RewriteRule ^post-(.+)\.html$  http://www.example.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^about(.+)\.html$  http://www.example.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^forum-(.+)\.html$ http://www.example.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=$1 [NC,R=301,L]

# Apply current SEO mod
RewriteRule ^.+-f([0-9]+)\.html(-(.+))?$              ./viewforum.php?f=$1&$3           [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^.+-(t|p)([0-9]+)\.html(-(.+))?$          ./viewtopic.php?$1=$2&$4          [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^.+-f([0-9]+)s([0-9]+)\.html(-(.+))?$     ./viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2&$4  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^.+-(t|p)([0-9]+)s([0-9]+)\.html(-(.+))?$ ./viewtopic.php?$1=$2&start=$3&$5 [QSA,L]
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Postby osaka73 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:12 am

No. Even in the source code, they are like this:

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./support-f100.htmlsk=t&sd=d
./support-f100.htmlmark=topics
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Postby richardk » Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:17 pm

Then the problem is the PHP outputting the link not the mod_rewrite.
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Postby osaka73 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:01 pm

Thank you so much! I would have spent hours trying to figure out where my mod_rewrite had gone wrong.

I focused my direction on the php output, and found the problems.

Not sure anybody else will find my post helpful, except for the fact that they might look at the code above and see it is correct.

Thanks again.
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