htaccess redirect when there is a space in url

Question

I want to redirect from a old url which still appears in the google search to the new one. the old url is this:

http://www.marionettecolla.org/file%20_mostra_milano/mostra_marionette-milano.htm

and I want to redirect it to the home page:

http://www.marionettecolla.org/

I used this in my .htaccess:

Redirect http://marionettecolla.org/file\ _mostra_milano/mostra_marionette-milano.htm http://marionettecolla.org/

but I am getting Error 500... Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

this should works:

Redirect 301 "http://marionettecolla.org/file _mostra_milano/mostra_marionette-milano.htm" http://marionettecolla.org/

just put it between pair of double-quotes " ... "

Update:

This is another way also, should works for any kind of spaces:

redirectMatch 301 http://marionettecolla.org/file[\s]_mostra_milano/mostra_marionette-milano.htm http://marionettecolla.org/

Answer 2

You can't just escape space like that "\ ". The proper way to do it is "\s".

Although I am not sure if putting "\s" in place of space in htaccess file would do the trick. Please let me know if it worked.

Answer 3

Try this it works even we tested:

redirect 301 "/file _mostra_milano/mostra_marionette-milano.htm" http://marionettecolla.orgx/" http://marionettecolla.org

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alapati