Redirect 301 but has spaces in the filename

Andy K · September 30th, 2008, 08:58 AM

I have revamped a website and I am redirecting old htm pages to new php pages using Redirect 301 in a .htaccess file.

Example:
Redirect 301 /results.htm http://www.domainname.co.uk/resultsfixtures-sept.php

This works fine but THE PROBLEM is some of the old pages have SPACES in them like this....

club products info.htm

I have tried: club%20products%20info.htm

But had no effect, returned 'not found' so my next effort was a Rewrite using back slashes like this....

RewriteRule ^club\ products\ info.htm/$ http://www.domainname.co.uk/products.php/ [R=301,L]

But this still returns NOT FOUND
The requested URL /club products info.htm was not found on this server.

So am I missing something on the Rewrite?

cheers

Andy

Rob · September 30th, 2008, 11:16 AM

how about....
RewriteRule ^club%20products%20info.htm/$ http://www.domainname.co.uk/products.php/ [R=301,L]

Rob · September 30th, 2008, 11:24 AM

if the site has a small number of non product pages then I would set up seperate rules for those first in th htaccess file specifing the flag to stop processing more rules for those ones.

Once they are dealt with you are free to assume all other traffic must be to a product page and so you can redirect everything else to the product page.

Andy K · September 30th, 2008, 12:14 PM

RewriteRule ^club%20products%20info.htm/$ http://www.brinsworthwhitehilljfc.co.uk/products.php [R=301,L]

Brings the same Not Found error:
http://www.brinsworthwhitehilljfc.co...cts%20info.htm

I have dealt with around a dozen urls, there are just a few with spaces in where Im having a problem.

Andy K · September 30th, 2008, 12:25 PM

How would I "redirect everything else" ?