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nickf
nickf

Reputation: 545975

mod_rewrite with spaces in the urls

I need to set up some RewriteRules to redirect a URL which has a space in it. I've tried this:

RewriteRule ^article/with%20spaces.html$ /article/without_spaces.html [R=301,L]

... but it doesn't work. Putting in a space instead of %20 causes a 500 Internal Server Error. How do I add a space?

Upvotes: 37

Views: 33180

Answers (5)

Denia
Denia

Reputation: 141

If you want to avoid the complexity of escaping each space (e.g. if you plan to have this file automatically generated), you can simply use quotes:

RewriteRule "^article/with spaces.html$" /article/without_spaces.html [R=301,L]

Furthermore, these quotes can be used to encase any one expected argument:

RewriteRule "^article/with spaces.html$" "/article/without_spaces.html" [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 14

Abraham Kifle
Abraham Kifle

Reputation: 91

RewriteRule ^article/with[\ |%2520]spaces.html$ /article/without_spaces.html [R=301,L]

The first option replaces a space while the second replaces hard coded %20 in the url.

Upvotes: 9

Rich Adams
Rich Adams

Reputation: 26574

You can just escape the space with a \

RewriteRule ^article/with\ spaces.html$ /article/without_spaces.html [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 13

Beau Simensen
Beau Simensen

Reputation: 4578

Try putting a \ in front of your space to escape it.

RewriteRule ^article/with\ spaces.html$ /article/without_spaces.html [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 60

nickf
nickf

Reputation: 545975

Ah, I've found a solution: use the regex style to show a space:

RewriteRule ^article/with\sspaces.html$ ...

Though, I suspect that this would match all the other whitespace characters too (tabs, etc), but I don't think it's going to be much of a problem.

Upvotes: 1

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