: .htaccess with Unicode and normal English I have the following .htaccess code: RewriteRule ^Indian-Patriot-Name/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([^x00-x7F]+).*?$ indianpatriot.php?id=&lid=&name=

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RewriteRule ^Indian-Patriot-Name-English/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([^x00-x7F]+ [A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ indianpatriot.php?id=&lid=&name= [B,L,QSA]


I get Internal Server Error ...


You have an erroneous space in the RewriteRule pattern. This will result in your "Internal Server Error" since spaces are delimiters in Apache directives. If you check your error log you'll probably see an error about "Invalid flags", since indianpatriot.php?id... will now be seen as the flags argument to the RewriteRule directive.

However, the suggestion by @PatrickMevzek in comments, to use alternation looks as if it should have worked. For example:

RewriteRule ^Indian-Patriot-Name-English/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([^x00-x7F]+|[A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ indianpatriot.php?id=&lid=&name= [B,L,QSA]


Note that your original regex that matches the unicode URL had an additional "catch everything else" pattern on the end: .*?. (Your regex that matches the non-unicode URL does not have this.) This does seem unusual. If this is required then you can simply omit the $ (end of string anchor) from the end of the pattern to do the same thing.

Note also, that [^x00-x7F] is a negated character class, that matches any character not in the byte range 00..7F (hex). In order to incorporate the latin alphabet, that falls in this range, then you could simply extend this range: [x00-xFF] - this is now a positive range that matches everything (which is no doubt more than you need, but you were probably matching more than you needed with the original regex).

However, this could perhaps be simplified. If you simply want to match anything (unicode or latin characters) at the end of the URL then ([^x00-x7F]+|[A-Za-z0-9-]+) (or even ([x00-xFF]+)) could be simplified to ([^/]+) (ie. anything except a slash). And, providing you don't also mind matching the underscore character, then [A-Za-z0-9-] could be reduced to [w-]. So, this becomes:

RewriteRule ^Indian-Patriot-Name-English/(w-]+)/([w-]+)/([^/]+)?$ indianpatriot.php?id=&lid=&name= [B,L,QSA]

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