Topic: Help with Rewrite Cond and Rule at .htaccess file.

[karea12]

Hello friends!

Short question here, I'm having a problem with .htaccess redirect function.


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RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\index.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC]


## ## Internal Redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html

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It works well, cutting the .html and the index.html from the url in the browser, but when a special character like a acute sign à or another ç, ã, it redirects to the long %25C3%25A7 and %25C3%25A3 code symbol character:

The folder structure/file is:
/public_ftp/reidadedetizacaorj/orçamentobão.html

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:
http://reidadedetizacaorj.com/or%C3%A7amentob%C3%A3o

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:
http://reidadedetizacaorj.com/orçamentobão

Because of this, host gator shows a 404 page because obviously because or%25C3%25A7amentob%25C3%25A3o is not a file in the server.

Can you guys help me with the needed modifications on the .htaccess file
?

[James Blond]

Matter of fact is that the browser sends the request already with the %SOMETHING. You just don't see it in the address bar. Same thing happens with puny code domain names like münchen.de [1]

However there is the NE parameter for mod rewrite [2]

Try that.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN_show_punycode
[2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_ne