mod_rewrite allow space

swissmissflash

RewriteRule ^users/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)+$ /file.php?uname=$1

how can i modify that to allow a space?

Should be fairly simple answer. I'm ashamed I can't figure it out... :p

leatherback

Nut sure whether this is slilly or brilliant but..

RewriteRule ^{users/([A-Za-z0-9-} ]+)+$ /file.php?uname=$

swissmissflash

I was hoping to say brilliant :p

but I get a "Internal Server Error" on everything with my site when i add that space....

leatherback

I had a browse, and one of the threads I found was this one, which might possibly help
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/606.htm

swissmissflash

That helps. Thanks for taking the time. Appriciate it. 🙂

Still not able to get it working but ill keep searching. Getting closer...

bradgrafelman

Can you show us how you modified your .htacccess file after reading the above page? I couldn't think of what to do myself until I read that site. What they do is first rewrite all spaces to "%20", and then you use a rule like you have to do the actual URL rewrite.

In other words, you're modifying the URL twice - once to check for spaces (and safely encode them if found), and a second time to redirect the URL to your file.php script.

swissmissflash

Well, my server converts to %20 by default. I didn't go that route with the link he provided. I actually just switched to the following as a temporary solution.

RewriteRule ^users/(.*)$ /file.php?uname=$1

I just do a little more validation in PHP for now. Hopefully I can figure out the other way soon though. 🙂