Escaping parentheses in URL imports?

Can you give an example, and how do they not work?

An example could be a redirect from the relative path “/Files/images/siteImages/PDF/product(2).pdf to ” / ” (The frontpage)

I can create the redirect in the plugin and everything, but the redirect itself does not get created. The path that is supposed to redirect simply returns error 404.

So the redirect doesn’t import, or the redirect imports but doesn’t work? The above is a PDF file and that is likely served directly by your server. See here for more info:

https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/

Hi John

Thanks for the fast reply.

Yeah it imports it, but the redirect does not actually get created.
Yes okay, but I also have other relative paths containing parentheses that are not PDF files, and they do not work either.

Are they also referencing files? The same would apply

No they are just refering old paths that are no longer valid.
And the same type of path works with other URL’s where they do not contain parentheses

Can you post a screenshot of your settings for one of these redirects? A URL with parentheses redirects fine for me.

How can i post my screenshot on here?

You can use a screenshot website of some kind, like imgur

https://imgur.com/a/tuZvVBG there.

Sorry that it is very zoomed out.

Ok, that has a file extension and so the above link may apply. It also looks to be have the regular expression option enabled and so the parentheses won’t work. You should disable that regex option

It worked after i removed the RegEx option.

Thank you so much for the very quick support! ??