I've been trying so many things today and I am just not winning. I have one file in my site which got created by accident with a special character in it. As a result Googlebot has stopped crawling for 3 weeks now and Webmaster tools / Search console keeps notifying me and wanting to retest the url.
All I want to achieve is to configure Nginx to match the following requests and redirect them to the correct location but regex has me stumped on this one.
The unencoded URL string is:
/historical-rainfall-trends-south-africa-1921–2015.pdf
The encoded URL string is:
/historical-rainfall-trends-south-africa-1921%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%9C2015.pdf
How can I get a location match for these?
UPDATE:
Still losing my mind, nothing I have tried is working. I get a match with this regex here - https://regex101.com/r/3Lk2zr/3
but then using this
location ~ /.*[^\x00-\x7F]+.* {
return 444;
}
still gives me a 404 and not a 444
Likewise I get a match with this - https://regex101.com/r/80KWJ8/1 But then
location ~ /.*([^?]*)\%(.*)$ {
return 444;
}
Gives 404 and not 444
