: 301 redirecting urls with special characters using web.config I am trying to redirect some old urls containing some special characters. When I place the url on the web.config automatically it

@Shanna517

The HTTP status code 500 "internal server error" is shown because the URL's you used are not properly escaped.

A quote from StackOverflow:


When adding a query string in the action of a rewrite rule, you've got to escape all the "?" and "&" characters in the URL.


? = ?
& = &


For example the following won't work:

<action type="Redirect" url="/long_url.aspx?key1=value1&key2=value2" />


For example the following will work:

<action type="Redirect" url="/long_url.aspx&#63;key1=value1&amp;key2=value2" />

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