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Asked: 2026-06-15T11:36:28+00:00

Consider the following scenario: I want to be able to access http://www.example.com/word/hello/ , where

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Consider the following scenario:

I want to be able to access http://www.example.com/word/hello/, where the word hello is variable. So I set up .htaccess to configure that.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^word/(.+)/?$ displayword.php?word=$1 [L]

I used .+ because I also want to filter any symbols such as ?+-.!;: etc.

And I set up my PHP file accordingly:

<?php
echo $_GET['word'];
?>

Remember that this is just a scenario. Now, I went to this URL: http://www.example.com/word/Are you ok?/, and the page outputted this:

Are you ok

And I couldn’t figure out why. But then I realised that the question mark symbol is the starting point of the URL variables.

So is there a way to ‘url encode’ the question mark in the above example, in order for it to be displayed correctly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no need to encode it, try this:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^word/([a-zA-Z0-9-=_.?]+)/?$ displayword.php?word=$1 [L]

    It will display ? in the parameter and any other character you add to the [group]. I did not test if the rule works, though, but I suppose it does. Looks ok and that is not the question.

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