trouble with ampersands in urls not validating
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:50 pm
I have just discovered a problem with the ugly urls on my site:
my urls are in the following format:
http://www.shareworld.co.uk/index.php?m ... required=1...
I use xml-sitemaps to create and submit sitemaps to Google. Howver, I have JUST realised that xml sitemaps is changing the url to the following:
http://www.shareworld.co.uk/index.php?m ... required=1...
Note that the ampersands are being re-coded as: &
I looked on the forum for xml-sitemaps and they say that this is the compliant way to display an ampersand. So as a result, when I click on any of these re-written urls, it takes me to the homepage, rather than the questions page.
Is there a way around this? Perhaps a rewrite rule in htaccess? Or do I just need to impliment pretty urls (which by the way I am happy to pay someone to do - but that probably goes in another section of the forum).
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Dave
my urls are in the following format:
http://www.shareworld.co.uk/index.php?m ... required=1...
I use xml-sitemaps to create and submit sitemaps to Google. Howver, I have JUST realised that xml sitemaps is changing the url to the following:
http://www.shareworld.co.uk/index.php?m ... required=1...
Note that the ampersands are being re-coded as: &
I looked on the forum for xml-sitemaps and they say that this is the compliant way to display an ampersand. So as a result, when I click on any of these re-written urls, it takes me to the homepage, rather than the questions page.
Is there a way around this? Perhaps a rewrite rule in htaccess? Or do I just need to impliment pretty urls (which by the way I am happy to pay someone to do - but that probably goes in another section of the forum).
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Dave