This happens on only one of my servers, and I haven't been able to nail down the problem. It feels like a configuration related issue, yet I can't reveal any differences between the working and non-working configuration.<\/p>\n
An example URL:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/test.html%3Fparam=1<\/p>\n
In a working configuration, the server has no problem redirecting the above URL to:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/test.html?param=1<\/p>\n
In a non-working configuration, Apache simply returns a 404 error. Not cool!<\/p>\n
After scouring the web for a few hours, i came across a knowledgeable fellow who really put a dent in this problem. I wish I could remember the link, to give him proper credit.<\/p>\n
Essentially, he created two Rewrite Conditions to locate these encoded characters, allow us to Rewrite appropriately:<\/p>\n
The one missing link was a proper RewriteRule<\/em>. I cam up with the below, which seems to work in all of my test cases. Essentially, replacing the %3F with a ?.<\/p>\n Again, I have a feeling this is a terribly hacky approach to a simple Apache misconfiguration. But, for those of use who can't Google 50 search terms per minute to find a solution, the above is pretty close!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This happens on only one of my servers, and I haven't been able to nail down the problem. It feels like a configuration related issue,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[77,41],"tags":[118,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\\ \/([^?\\ ]*\\?[^%\\ ]*\\%(25)*(3[Dd]|26)[^\\ ]*)\\ HTTP\/ [OR]
\n\tRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\\ \/(([^%\\ ]*\\%(25)*([^3].|.[^Ff]))*[^%\\ ]*\\%(25)*3[Ff][^\\ ]*)\\ HTTP\/
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\nRewriteRule ^([^\\%]+) http:\/\/www.mysite.com$1 [R=301,L]
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n