I have set up rules for dynamic redirects to point old URLs to new locations. However, I encountered an issue where the redirect failed when URL Encoded Characters were present in the URLs. Here is an example of such URLs:
www.example.com/ebc-drama-yebet-sira/yebet-sira-%E1%8B%A8%E1%89%A4%E1%89%B5-%E1%88%B5%E1%88%AB-drama-part-1-video_80c33bc56.html
In order to address this issue, I need a rule to remove characters like:
%E1%8B%A8%E1%89%A4%E1%89%B5-%E1%88%B5%E1%88%AB
These characters represent the Amharic word: የቤት-ስራ.
The rule should remove non-alphanumeric characters from URLs while preserving special characters like "-" and "_" along with URL Encoded Characters.
I have tried the following:
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /$1 [L,R=301]
and :
RewriteRule (.*)[^a-zA-Z0-9](.*) $1$2 [N]
Htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php
... (rest of the code remains the same)
RedirectMatch 301 ^/[\w-]+/([\w-]+\.html)$ /$1
Thanks.