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I have reprogrammed an old joomla site to expression engine…
what a bliss 😊

but google still holds the old url’s and instead of displaying the “404” error page it just sais:
“Disallowed Key Characters”

is this a server related thing, or an EE based thing?

the url’s have “commas” in them like this:
/content/view/346/lang,fr/
/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,63/

any help appreciated!
stefan

Hi Stefan,

This is an EE security feature. There are a couple of things you can do. The first is to open a Google Webmasters account so you can update Google with your new site links. Secondly, you can use .htaccess rewrite rules to check for any incoming URLs with a comma in them and redirect that request to your 404 page. Any of those rewrites you do should have an appropriate status code applied (301 meaning a permanent redirect). Though, unless your 404 page has information about how to find the content on the new site I would think about redirecting visitors to a page explaining what has happened rather than just a 404 page.

Does that help?

Cheers

Greg

Hi Stefan,

This is an EE security feature. There are a couple of things you can do. The first is to open a Google Webmasters account so you can update Google with your new site links. Secondly, you can use .htaccess rewrite rules to check for any incoming URLs with a comma in them and redirect that request to your 404 page. Any of those rewrites you do should have an appropriate status code applied (301 meaning a permanent redirect). Though, unless your 404 page has information about how to find the content on the new site I would think about redirecting visitors to a page explaining what has happened rather than just a 404 page.

Does that help?

Cheers

Greg

hi greg,
thanks for clearing that…

I am very bad in htaceess…
might you have an example on hand?

I tried:
redirect 301 /content/ http://www.mysite.ch

but that doesn’t work…
cheers

stefan

stefan,

I use a great site here for htaccess reference

stefan,

I use a great site here for htaccess reference

thanks for that valuable link!

so there’s no way to turn this security behaviour off? in EE…

Hi Stefan,

It is possible to modify the allowed characters in a URI by altering the config file but I would strongly recommend that you do not do that. Do you want me to move this thread to the CodeShare Corner forum so that you can get some community assistance with your .htaccess rules?

Cheers

Greg