I have some old files that need to point to new files – the old files are indexed from Google like this: old%20file%20here.pdf – because the last people doing the site left spaces in file names – but in my Rewrites they just aren’t matching the old file to send to the new – does anyone know how to ignore the %20 and redirect right?
My rewrite code here:
RewriteRule ^downloads/old%file%20here.pdf$ http://www.domain.co.uk/new-file.pdf [R=301,L]
Its working fine for rest of redirects which are pages with normal URLs.
found the answer, this is it
[space]name (so should be \ name) instead of what i was doing which was \%20name
hope this helps any one else!