Problems with apostrophes and quote marks in URL strings

You will need to URL encode the special characters. For example an apostrophe becomes %27 and a double quote %22

What about when the incoming URL includes the special character.

This incoming URL:

https://billbennett.co.nz/earth-hour-reminder-auckland’s-power-still-needs-fixing/

Should redirect to:

https://billbennett.co.nz/earth-hour-reminder-aucklands-power-still-needs-fixing/

If I write the source URL as:

https://billbennett.co.nz/earth-hour-reminder-auckland%27s-power-still-needs-fixing/

The Redirection plug-in doesn’t pick up the redirect. Nor does the original.

Hi John,

First, thank you for Redirection which I am using.

I’m rebuilding a client’s site and I had to do many redirections as he had the most bizarre URLs. You’re plugin has always worked until now.

I am having a problem redirecting this url:

https://barneswildlifecontrol.com/blog/4943437/Dayton-Ohio’s-Best-Animal-Catchers-…-Barnes-Wildlife-Control-of-course/2167204

A number of us on the Divi forum have tried to get this to work and we can’t. Any suggestions?

The best to you and yours,
Greg

Bill found a solution to your problem thanks to Darren Woodley.

Enter in

https://billbennett.co.nz/earth-hour-reminder-auckland.*%5B‘%5Ds-power-still-needs-fixing/

Then check the regex box.

This should work.

Greg

Bill, For some reason the code I entered got scrambled and it is not showing the correct code.

Where the apostrophe is in the url replace it with .*[‘]

Greg

That is an apostrophe inside the square brackets. So you will replace the apostrophe with the following: period, asterisk, left square bracket, apostrophe, right square bracket.
Greg

Thanks, testing that now.

Hmm, like this:

/earth-hour-reminder-auckland.*[’]s-power-still-needs-fixing/

That didn’t work.

I tried it again the the neutral apostrophe, that didn’t work either.

OK. I fixed it. Seems if I just use

[']

that’s the correct regex expression.

Great! What I did worked for me.

Greg