Configure apache to treat static resources with "?" character in filename

Question

Hello All,

For various reasons, I have a bunch of static resources all with the following naming format:

xxxxx?yyyyy

where the x's are regular letter chars, and the y's numbers 0-9.

Apache is truncating the filename in the GET request at the "?" - as this is traditionally used to delinate query params - and thus reporting the followying error

file xxxx not found.

How can I get Apache to not think the y's are query args, and are actually part of the static file name?

Thanks very much for help,

Don

Answer 1

If you have control of how the URLs are being output, you can escape the '?' chars, This would be %3F instead of the '?'. The URL would therefore be

http://example.com/abcdef%3f99999