mod_rewrite with spaces in the urls

Question

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_spa         


        

Answer 1

You can just escape the space with a \

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