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

Have your rules like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+single\.php\?title=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/? [R=302,L,NE]

## Adding a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(.*?)[^/][?\s]
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

# convert %20 to -
RewriteRule "^(\S*) +(\S* .*)$" $1-$2 [N,NE]
RewriteRule "^(\S*) (\S*)$" $1-$2 [L,R=302,NE]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ single.php?title=$1 [NE,L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

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.