Question

Recently i have been using stackoverflow to fix many of my server errors. Recently i have encountered the following error “NOT FOUND 404 error” for the following error.

I have seen from web master central that there are several hundred urls have trailing string “%20target=” I want to remove so that the url yield results.

here is the sample. i wanted to change the following url from

http://www.example.com/one/two/three/four/five/For-Sale-26264.html%20target=

to

http://www.example.com/one/two/three/four/five/For-Sale-26264.html

How can i achieve this using htaccess

Answer 1

The %20 is actually a URL encoded space, so you can use a lazy select (.+?) to match as few characters as possible before the space with \s and then target. The grouped match is available as a back reference with $1 for the rewrite.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.+?)\starget= $1 [L]