Having issues redirecting an old URL that has parenthesis in it to a new URL. Have both of these in web.config and neither work.

I know %28 and %29 appear in the URL in the browser, but neither redirect works and it just ends up on the 404 page. I researched it, but could not find anything useful. All the other redirects, those without special characters, work fine.

Any help would be appreciated.


Marshall
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Hi Marshall, you would need to escape the parenthesis

To redirect a URL in IIS that contains parentheses, you need to escape them in your redirection rule. Replace ( with \( and ) with \). This ensures that the parentheses are treated literally in the URL pattern matching,

Have you tried that?

Thanks,
David

I just did based on what you said and it worked like a charm. Never had a parenthesis in a URL before. Thanks Dave.

Marshall
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