URL rewriting for university bingo website

Question

This is my .htaccess file's code:

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule    ^alluniversitiesview/([^\.]*)\.html$    alluniversitiesview.php?search=$1    [NC,L]    # Handle product
RewriteRule    ^search/([^\.]*)\.html$    index.php?search=$1    [NC,L]    # Handle product
ErrorDocument 404 /search/404.html
ErrorDocument 401 /search/401.html
ErrorDocument 500 /search/500.html
ErrorDocument 403 /search/403.html
ErrorDocument 400 /search/400.html

My requirement: If you go to

http://universitybingo.com/search/HARVARD+UNIV.html
http://universitybingo.com/search/HARVARD+UNI5V!.ER&#37SITY375E.html

Working fine.

But when url contains (%) it does not work like above

EXAMPLE from universitybingo.com

But not working http://universitybingo.com/search/HARVARD+UN%IV.html

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '17 at 06:44

The % is the escape char for URLs.

But as per other answers like htaccess to escape percent (%) from URL or https://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/4220265.htm you can try with the B flag of the mod_rewrite like:

RewriteRule    ^alluniversitiesview/([^\.]*)\.html$    alluniversitiesview.php?search=$1    [NC,L,B]    # Handle product
RewriteRule    ^search/([^\.]*)\.html$    index.php?search=$1    [NC,L,B]    # Handle product

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '17 at 06:47

first of check mod rewrite engine is on or not ?

after you can using below html code:

RewriteRule ^alluniversitiesview/([^\.]*)\.html$ alluniversitiesview.php?search=$1    [NC,L,B]    # Handle product
RewriteRule ^search/([^\.]*)\.html$ index.php?search=$1    [NC,L,B]    # Handle product

URL rewriting for university bingo website

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