Hey Russell, After Going through all the threads in this post, it is correct to say, GET Rid of the space. Use "-" hyphen for SEO friendly URL's. Its completely OK.
Other thing which is very handy is urlencode and urldecode functions. When you are sending a query string use urlencode function. This will preserve the query string variable as "Test Story" and not as just "Test"; even if there are spaces in the variable. Gaurav Kumar Tech Lead Open Source Solutions On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Russell Seymour < russell.seym...@turtlesystems.co.uk> wrote: > Morning, > > I am trying to make my URLs more search engine friendly and I have come up > against a problem. > > I want the following URL: > > mysite.example.com/articles/Test Story > > to be proxied to > > mysite.example.com/index.php?m=articles&t=Test%20Story > > I have the following rule in my Apache conf > > RewriteRule ^/articles/(.*) index.php?m=articles&t=$1 [P,L] > > Now if I run with this configuration, PHP strips the query string back at > the space, so my query string ends up looking like > > [QUERY_STRING] => m=articles&t=Test > > even though the log file for the rewrite shows that the full query is being > passed. > > But if I change the RewriteRule to be a Rewrite instead of a Proxy I get > > [QUERY_STRING] => m=articles&t=Test%20Story > > So something is happening when the system is proxying the request. > Adding %20 into the URL does not fix the problem when proxy is enabled > either. > > I have search around on the Internet, and people talk about using urlencode > etc, this is fine when > PHP is creating the URL but not when Apache is doing the rewrite. > > I apologise if people feel this is on the wrong list, but as far as I can > tell from the rewrite logs the data is coming all > the way through to PHP which is truncating it. This is purely my > observation. > > Apache version: 2.2.11 > PHP Version: 5.3.0 > > Any help is gratefully recieved. > > Thanks, Russell > > >
