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  • Brendan Rice 372 posts 608 karma points
    Jul 10, 2013 @ 02:10
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    urlReplacing £ sign causes 404

    I have a client who doesn't want certain special characters to appear in their URLs, the £ sign is one of the characters.

    The best way I could see of achieving this is to ammend the config/umbracoSettings.config urlReplacing section to include the following entry:

    <char org="£">GBP</char>

    After changing this I tried to republish the entire site from the root node and it timed out. The URL (from properties) for the page in question remained as http://www.myurl.com/£10-a-go instead of http://www.myurl.com/GBP10-a-go.

    I then published the single page and the URL changed as expected (http://www.myurl.com/GBP10-a-go). When I try to navigate to that URL I get a 404 error. 

    Can anyone help with this please?

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Jul 10, 2013 @ 09:44
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    Hi Brendan

    What version of Umbraco are you using?

    From what you describe above it should really just work but this may be a bug if recycling the app pool does not work.

    /Jan

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  • Brendan Rice 372 posts 608 karma points
    Jul 10, 2013 @ 10:20
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    Hi Jan,

    It is version 4.11.8.

    I tried to recycle the app pool as well but that didn't work.

    Have you got a 4.11.8 site you could reproduce the error on?

    Thanks,

    Brendan

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Jul 11, 2013 @ 00:10
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Hi Brendan

    If you have the time to wait I can get back to you later today probably around 1800 where I have had the time to test the scenario on some local installs.

    /Jan

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  • Brendan Rice 372 posts 608 karma points
    Jul 11, 2013 @ 00:11
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    Hi Jan,

    I have hit a brick wall with it so any help is really appreciated. Let me know what you find :)

    Thanks again for the help.

    Brendan

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  • Jamie Pollock 172 posts 846 karma points c-trib
    Jul 11, 2013 @ 12:08
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    Hi Brendan,
    This may not solve the problem but have you tried using the HTML entity:

    &pound;

    rather than the £ sign?

    Typically you'd use the HTML entity are you're in XML/config file.

    Jamie

    EDIT: I just realised the Umbraco richtext encodes HTML entities. It's been a while since I've been on this site. D'oh!

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  • Jan Skovgaard 11258 posts 23500 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Jul 11, 2013 @ 13:23
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    Ah yes! Jamie is right, you should be able to use the entity just like &amp; is being used for the & sign in the replace section. I have not come around to do any testing yet but I'm 100% certain that Jamies suggestion will do the trick - I really should have thought of that myself :)

    /Jan

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  • Brendan Rice 372 posts 608 karma points
    Oct 03, 2013 @ 01:04
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    I forgot all about this thread.

    Got round to trying the £ but it didn't work either.

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