[HELP]

Hello folks!

Short question here, I'm having a problem with .htaccess redirect function.

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RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\index.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC]


## ## Internal Redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html

Code (markup):

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It works well, cutting the .html and the index.html from the url in the browser, but when a special character like a acute sign à or another ç, ã, it redirects to the 3 code symbol character:

The folder structure/file is:
/public_ftp/reidadedetizacaorj/orçamentobão.html

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:
http://reidadedetizacaorj.com/or%C3%A7amentob%C3%A3o

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:
http://reidadedetizacaorj.com/orçamentobão

Because of this, host gator shows a 404 page because obviously because or%25C3%25A7amentob%25C3%25A3o is not a file in the server.

Can you guys help me with the needed modifications on the .htaccess file?

 

Try this:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\index.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,NC,NE]


## ## Internal Redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html

Code (markup):

 

Thanks @nsb2006 !
It worked like a charm!

What the [NE] does differently from the previous code?

 

Understanding RewriteRule flags: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html
NE is "noescape" which means that special characters aren't translated to their hexcode equivalent.

 

Like @PoPSiCLe said, the tag will stop converting the special character, and the 404 error would be solved.