: URL not found after rewrite Using this .htaccess file: Options +FollowSymLinks Options +Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteRule matches/(.*)-v-(.*) matches/matchevent.php?event=%20v%20 [R=301,L] This

@Eichhorn148

I replicated your setup. There are two problems:


I can't get the %20 in the rewrite URL to work. I can get the rule to work if I replace %20 with +. A plus sign should URL decode to a space the same way a %20 does, so it should be treated the same in your matchevent.php script.
It was redirecting me to a bad relative path. If I change the redirect path to start from the root with /sport/league/matches/, it works fine.


Here is the rewrite rule that works for me:

RewriteRule matches/(.*)-v-(.*) /sport/league/matches/matchevent.php?event=+v+ [R=301,L]


I think you will want to remove the R=301 from the rewrite rule so that it doesn't do a redirect, but rather shows you the content at the pretty url:

RewriteRule matches/(.*)-v-(.*) /sport/league/matches/matchevent.php?event=+v+ [L]

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