Hi all,

Pulling my hair out(whatever left of it)) .
I got some articles linking to my site like
<a href="http://www.blahblah.com/%20">blah</a> , well of course, Gbot is giving craw error. So I was trying to rewrite in .htaccess

RewriteRule ^/\%20$ / [R=301]

and other different things. But still didn't work out. So please expert help is needed.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Try this:
Regards

Hi bathory,

Sorry for name changed.

I tried with

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^/ "
RewriteRule (.*) / [R=301]


but it didn't work. In httpd access log, it showed "GET /%20 HTTP/1.1" 404. I also tried with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/\%20 , but result was the same..

any thought!!

It works here (see the 301 response):
Are you sure you leave a blank space after the slash (/) in the RewriteCond? This is because apache turns %20 into a space.
You can check error_log to see why you get the 404 error.

Hi Bathory,

Thanks again, below is what I got in .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^/ "
RewriteRule (.*) / [R=301]

#####301 redirect for url doesn't exist
###/index.php/it-service ...etc will be redirected to / including index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php$
RewriteRule (.*) / [R=301,L]
########################
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php/(.*)
RewriteRule (.*) /error404.html [R=301]

I made test environment in my lan. I also created the html file with <a href="http://192.168.1.11/%20">test page</a> and restarted the server. And also clear the cache on browser, which accessing the page. On the access_log, I still got

"192.168.1.4 - - [31/Jan/2012:22:38:07 +1100] "GET /%20 HTTP/1.1" 404 276 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110621 Fedora/3.6.18-1.fc14 Firefox/3.6.18 GTB7.1" .

Now I am gonna remove the rest of the code in .htaccess and see if it works.

When I check in error.log, I got
[client 192.168.1.4] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ . but i can go to webpage directly but typing ip address without even having index.php..
So Doc Root is set correctly in conf.
Strange...

It's strange indeed.
Are you sure apache reads .htaccess files? Put some garbage into .htaccess and see if you get a 500 error
Also the .htaccess must be located under the docroot (/var/www/html in your case)

I removed everything in .htaccess and wrote simple redirect a.html to b.html

RewriteRule ^a\.html$ b.html

And it didn't work. So somehow it is not reading htaccess.

Hi Bathory,

It worked, I just put the code you suggested in production server and worked straightaway. Sorry for all the fuss, but some reason my test server is still not working.

Thank you so much again

If your test box doesn't read .htaccess files, you must make sure that you have:
inside the <Directory /var/www/html>...</Directory> stanza in httpd.conf

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Regards

Hi Bathory

Thanks again for your help. Unfortunately because of my stupid behavior, the other user name was banned. so I couldn't put solved in topic. But your help was most greatly appreciated and saved me a lot of hours.

Cheers

I am facing a problem rewriting an url.

Please find details below:-

Current Url: details.php?product=Newspaper%20Ad%20Agency
Need Url: Newspaper-Ad-Agency


Current Url: category-page.php?category=Newspaper%20Ad
Need Url: Newspaper-Ad-By-City

You should start a new thread posting your question giving more details, like what you're trying to do,the code you're using for this and logs if any.

And please don't hijack old threads.

Regards

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