replace space by - using htaccess

Question

hi i have this code in my htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \\s/+sin         


        

Answer 1

You could try replacing the first rule with something like:

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+single\.php\?title=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [L,NE]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+single\.php\?title=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)(?:\ |\+)(.*)$ /$1-$2 [L,NE]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+single\.php\?title=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\ |\+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L,NE]

So instead of just redirecting direct requests to the "/title", you first internally rewrite it to "/title" (first rule), then iteratively replace all spaces and "+"'s with dashes "-" (second rule). When there are no more spaces or "+"'s in the URI, redirect (third rule).

Then you'd need to edit your single.php so that it can interpret "title"'s with dashes instead of spaces.