Special character redirects support
Now you can redirect old URLs with question marks (?) and equal signs (=) to another path, making it easy migrate old sites with complex URL structures.
<p>Ever had to migrate an old site with a painfully complex URL structure to Webflow, but not been able to set up all the redirects for URLs with question marks (?) and/or equal signs (=)? Well, now you can.<br></p><p>For example, let's say your old site's URL structure looks something like this:</p><p><strong>mysite.com/blog.php?category=photography</strong></p><p>but you want it to redirect to:</p><p><strong>mysite.com/blog/photography</strong></p><p>In the past, you'd be stuck. But today, you can set up a redirect to handle these special characters. </p><p>Redirects work in the <a data-rt-link-type="external" href="<https://help.webflow.com/article/how-to-redirect-old-urls-to-new-pages-in-your-webflow-site-301-redirects>">same way they've always worked</a>, meaning you'll still need to "escape" these special characters by placing a "%" sign before them, but we now support question marks and equal signs as well.</p><p>Revisiting our example from above, to "escape" these special characters, you'll need to write your redirects as follows:</p><figure class="w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width: 100%;" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width=""><div><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/64f9399ca7d13575ff21be83_escaped%20characters.png>" alt="Use percentage signs before special characters to "escape" them when writing redirects."></div></figure><p>Note that you can also set up redirects for entire URL folders and groups using wildcard rules, which you can find more information about in the <a data-rt-link-type="external" href="<https://help.webflow.com/article/how-to-redirect-old-urls-to-new-pages-in-your-webflow-site-301-redirects>">help center</a>.</p>
