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

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.