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Got an issue I haven’t seen before. Links to an EE site from an email (Campaign Monitor) are causing pages to render a 404 instead.

This works

<a href="http://sacramentofestival.com/kids/for-grownups/">http://sacramentofestival.com/kids/for-grownups/</a>

but this, coming from a Campaign Monitor email, does not (and shows the 404 template):

<a href="http://sacramentofestival.com/kids/for-grownups/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=festival">http://sacramentofestival.com/kids/for-grownups/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=festival</a> [...]

Any idea why? Is there a setting in EE for ignoring such params? I don’t need to capture the string for anything.

One thought: here’s my .htaccess. These rules have been translated for an Ngnix server. I tried the above test on other URLs (not just /kids) and the same result.

AcceptPathInfo On

Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^festival/kids(.*)$ /kids$1 [R=301,L]
# ee stuff
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^/index.php
RewriteCond $1 !.(css|js|png|jpe?g|gif|ico)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/?$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Any suggestions on the EE side? Thanks!

Ahh, I might be having this problem:

“Using URL rewrites to make ExpressionEngine, Campaign Monitor & Google Analytics play nice”
http://v1.newism.com.au/blog/post/56/expressionengine-campaign-monitor-google-analytics-and-url-rewrites/

That article saved my butt a few times!

Hey AllanW,

Where are you now? Did that article help?

Please let me know!

Cheers,

Hi Shane, thanks for checking. I still don’t know what’s causing the issue. I’ve disabled Google Analytics tracking in Campaign monitor for the time being (so it’s not appending query strings to the URLs), but that’s really a band-aid.

I’m not seeing the issue on another site that’s in development; there’s a lot of variables so I’m going to come back to this issue in a week or so. I really do want to understand what’s going on though, because it’s clear I’m not the only one affected and I want to make sure EECMS sites integrate well with other services.

So, I’ll be back in a week. Any insights appreciated!