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Hi,

Quite a common request is tracking page sources by adding ?utm_ or or somethign similar to urls to track specific sources e.g. newsletters, banners etc - but adding a ?some_query_here - to my Ee urls is causing 404’s e.g. it thinks it’s part of the URl.

So my setup is, i’m using .htaccess to remove index.php from the url.

so I have clean urls like this: 

mysite.com/segmentonehere/this-is-a-url-title

but if I do something like this

mysite.com/segmentonehere/this-is-a-url-title?utm_tracking

Then it just spits out a blank 404 page… Any ideas how to get EE to play nicely with tracking or anything with a ? on the end?

EE 2

Cheers,

It’s probably seeing the string as part of the segment, have you tried adding a slash?

mysite.com/segmentonehere/this-is-a-url-title/?utm_tracking

Hey 11Media,

Thank you for posting your question.

Rob is right, I think the ? is making the string appear as part of the segment. What happens when you add the trailing slash?

Cheers,

Hi guys,

Thanks for your responses.

I’ve tried the trailing slash but still get errors….. it seems to be happening on other links as well on the same site e.g. the root…

mysite.com/?utm_  

mysite.com/segment1/?utm

Very weird indeed, is there any info you need to help me out here please?

Update:

I’ve disabled strict urls…

And it’s making some progress, but it’s not perfect e.g.

It will now render “?” in the url e.g..

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/segment1/url-title-here">http://www.mysite.com/segment1/url-title-here</a>?

But if you add anything after the url it just takes you back to the index…

e.g. this won’t work…

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/segment1/url-title-here?utm_">http://www.mysite.com/segment1/url-title-here?utm_</a>

Hope someone can help

Hey there 11Media,

Can you show me the contents of your htacess?

Thank you,