mod_rewrite: target URL that contains an ampersand

Asked Dec 08 '16 at 19:04

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I'm trying to get the following RewriteRule to work:

RewriteRule ^/coins-and-currency-counters.html$ /storefrontCommerce/categorybrowse.do?category-name=CHANGERS+%26+CURRENCY+COUNTER&path=&currentPage=1&numResults=10&expanded=false [R=301,B]

However, the rule doesn't handle the "%26" (or ampersand) correctly, and instead returns the following URL:

/storefrontCommerce/categorybrowse.do?category-name=CHANGERS+6+CURRENCY+COUNTER&path=&currentPage=1&numResults=10&expanded=false

The following question seems closely related to my problem, but I don't understand the solutions offered:

How to encode special characters using mod_rewrite & Apache?

How do I tell mod_rewrite to not convert the "%26" to "6"?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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asked Dec 08 '16 at 19:04

Michael Sobczak

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According to one of those answers, it should succeed if you add the NE flag `[R=301,B,NE]` and backslash-escape the encoded character `name=CHANGERS+\%26+CURRENCY+COUNTER` – Michael Berkowski Dec 08 '16 at 19:08
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And `[B]` shouldn't be necessary because you do not have any back references to escape. – Michael Berkowski Dec 08 '16 at 19:09
That worked! Thanks! Do you want to post an answer to this question? – Michael Sobczak Dec 08 '16 at 19:35
The other one already has solid answers. I'll link this to it instead of answering. – Michael Berkowski Dec 08 '16 at 19:48
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Possible duplicate of [How to encode special characters using mod\_rewrite & Apache?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/459667/how-to-encode-special-characters-using-mod-rewrite-apache) – Michael Berkowski Dec 08 '16 at 19:48

mod_rewrite: target URL that contains an ampersand

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