I have a (wordpress) blog where after commenting the users are redirected back to the page with an anchor to their comment. Should look like this:
http://example.org/foo-bar/#comment-570630
But somehow I get a lot of 404 ins my logfiles for such URLs:
http://example.org/foo-bar/%23comment-570630
Is there a way to write a .htaccess rewrite rule to fix this?
Bonus question:
Any idea why this happens and what I can do about it?
%23
is the URL encoded representation of #
. I suspect your rewrite rules will not satisfy %23
. You ought to investigate how the response is being constructed. Specifically, any URL encoding functions.
However, it would be possible to solve your issue with a rewrite rule. Understand that you'll be returning two responses to the client after a comment is submitted. This is why it is preferable to correct the first response.
# http://example.org/foo-bar/%23comment-570630 -> http://example.org/foo-bar/#comment-570630
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} %23comment-\d+$
RewriteRule (.+)\/%23-comment(\d+)$ http://host/$1/#comment-$2 [R=301]
It's untested, but should work (I'm unsure about escaping \%
as it has special meaning in mod_rewrite).
Have you tried the B Flag?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} %23comment-\d+$
RewriteRule (.+)\/%23-comment(\d+)$ http://host/$1/#comment-$2 [B,R=301]
untested with your specific case, but used for a related problem.