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

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]