Question

Sometimes a br tag is inserted into our urls when they’re automatically linked from other websites. It triggers a 404 page. I want to remove that tag. For example, it looks like this:

http://www.healthyeatingstartshere.com/moti<br />vation/healthy-eating-routine

This is what I have so far to fix it, but no dice:

RewriteRule ^(.*)<br%20/>(.*)$ http://www.healthyeatingstartshere.com/$1$2 [L,R=301]

Any thoughts?

Thanks very much, Phil

Answer 1

Escape the space with a backslash

RewriteRule ^(.*)<br\ />(.*)$ http://www.healthyeatingstartshere.com/$1$2 [L,R=301]