Question

A friend has a German website – all urls need to be redirected to main.php to be processed – unfortunately, any with German characters aren’t being redirected.

This is the rule in question:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\/ÀÁÅÃÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ]+)$ /main.php?qs=$1 [L]

Can anyone see an obvious issue?

Cheers!

Answer 1

This is an encoding issue and not easy to fix as URLs should be UTF-8 encoded but are not required to.

As you want to redirect all URLs and capture the path why not just use this far simpler regular expression?

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /main.php?qs=$1 [L]