IIRF rewriteRule with special chars not working - mod-rewrite

I have following link:
http://www.svensonart.com/index.php/nl/artists/
I want to remove the index.php with IIRF, wich is no problem i use this rule:
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [I,L,QSA]
But when I have an URI with special charachters é è ö ,.. the rewriterule is not working. So if I want to rewrite this url:
http://www.svensonart.com/index.php/nl/artists/view/Lindstr%C3%B6m_Bengt
its not working.
Anybody any idea's why?

There isn't a rewrite flag for preventing a regular expression grouping from getting decoded, but there's an IIRF directive called UrlDecoding which you can try in your INI file:
UrlDecoding Off

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Replace html encoding with url encoding

We are getting random hits like:
/abc?p=2&utm_campaign=xyz-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Notice & which is html encoding for &. I have checked the possible sources but they all contain '&' only.
I want replace all & with &. Is there a way to achieve it? I have removed complete string as of now using below given rule. But this is not right!
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&)
RewriteRule (.*?) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}? [R=302,L]
Capture the referer in your logs so you can find the source of the problem and (also) fix it there.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^\S++\s++([^\s?]*+\?\S*?&)amp;(\S*+)
RewriteRule ^ %1%2 [DPI,L,R=301]
That will do one redirect per ampersand without messing about decoding and re-encoding the URL. Less efficient but more reliable.

accept parentheses as a character in mod_rewrite

i have to redirect some old page to new page i used below commend in .htaccess
RewriteRule ^Savane-98.htm$ savane-tc-9347-41-belgian-tapestry-throw [R=301,L]
it works fine but some of my old link have parentheses '()' it don't work how can i solve that . like below link
RewriteRule ^antique-bronze-square-end-rod-(flat-to-wall)-tapestry-wall-hanging-rod$ antique-bronze-square-end-rod-flat-to-wall-tapestry-rod [R=301,L]
this link don't work can anyone help me
Thanks
Parentheses are special characters in regular expressions - they denote the beginning and end of a matching group.
In order for them to be treated as literal parentheses by the regular expression engine, they need to be escaped with a backslash (\):
RewriteRule ^antique-bronze-square-end-rod-\(flat-to-wall\)-tap...

Isapi Rewrite - access query string pattern matches in RewriteRule

I'm using Isapi Rewrite 3 (mod rewrite clone for IIS) and trying to rewrite URLs based on the query string - and then pass on part of that query string in the rewrite.
So if I enter a URL like this: /test/home.cfm?page=default&arbitraryExtraArg=123
I want that to be rewritten as: /test/index.cfm?page=home&arbitraryExtraArg=123
I have the following condition/rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=default(.*)$ [I]
RewriteRule ^/test/home.cfm$ /test/index.cfm?page=home%1 [I,R=301]
But the extra query string variables are never passed. %1 seems to be blank.
This is how to reference a pattern match from the RewriteCond, right?
What am I missing here?
Thanks!
EDIT: It looks to me like the RewriteCond is being totally ignored. Here is what my logfile looks like:
[snip] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /test/home.cfm?page=default
[snip] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dev\IsapiRewrite\httpd.conf
[snip] (3) applying pattern '^/test/home\.cfm$' to uri '/test/home.cfm'
[snip] (1) escaping /test/index.cfm?page=home
[snip] (2) explicitly forcing redirect with http://www.devsite.com/test/index.cfm?page=home
[snip] (2) internal redirect with /test/home.cfm?page=default [INTERNAL REDIRECT]
[snip] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /test/index.cfm?page=home
[snip] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dev\IsapiRewrite\httpd.conf
[snip] (3) applying pattern '^/test/home\.cfm$' to uri '/test/index.cfm'
Should there be mention of the RewriteCond pattern check in there?
But the extra query string variables are never passed. %1 seems to be blank.
%1 is blank because according to the log the request you make is /test/home.cfm?page=default - without second parameter.
The absense of RewriteCond processing in the log may be due to low RewriteLogLevel.
And the config should be:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=default(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/test/home.cfm$ /test/index.cfm?page=home%1 [NC,R=301,L]
I think ISAPI Rewrite is a little different to mod_rewrite:
Whenever you put parentheses in any regular expression present in a complex rule (a rule with conditions) you are marking a submatch that could be used in a format string (using $N syntax) or as a back-reference (using \N syntax) in subsequent conditions. These submathces are global for the whole complex rule (RewriteRule directive and corresponding RewriteCond directives). Submatches are numbered from up to down and from left to right beginning from the first RewriteCond directive (if such directive exists) corresponding to the RewriteRule.
So try $1 to get the match of the first group no matter where it appears:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=default(.*)$ [I]
RewriteRule ^/test/home\.cfm$ /test/index.cfm?page=home$1 [I,R=301]
ISAPI Rewrite 3 seems to be more compatible to Apache’s mod_rewrite.
I believe this works also:
RewriteRule ^/test/home.cfm\?page=default(.*)$ /test/index.cfm?page=home%1 [I,R=301]

htaccess rewrite rule doesn't work with dashes?

my htaccess rule isn't working with rewrite with dashes in:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ index.php?do=$1 [QSA]
so, www.domain.com/rules works, however, www.domain.com/about-us doesn't
I've verified that www.domain.com/index.php?do=about-us works so it's definately a rewrite issue.
Thanks.
Your regular expression doesn't include a check for dashes - try:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z\-]+)$ index.php?do=$1 [QSA]
Your regex only takes a-z and A-Z, change it to [A-Za-z\-] so it will include the - character

why doesn't this rewrite the url properly?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?new.php?url
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)\.?(.+)$ new.php?url=$0 [L]
its supposed to take any URL
mysite.com/someurl
and convert it to
new.php?url=someurl
however it keeps going to just new.php
You need to escape the second question mark in the first line so it matches a literal question mark:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?new.php\?url
Also you are not using the parenthesized groups on the second line. $0 is okay, or you may want $1 instead. If you use $0 you could simplify it a bunch:
RewriteRule ^.*$ new.php?url=$0 [L]
Or on the other hand if you're breaking apart the URL for a reason I would suggest some fixup. You're not matching the file name and extension exactly right. A little more complex regex like this would probably do you better:
RewriteRule ^/?(.*?)(?:\.([^.]*))?$ new.php?path=$1&extension=$2 [L]
Explanation:
(.*?) matches the directory and file name. The ? means match non-greedily, so stop as soon as the next part matches. The parentheses cause it to be captured and stored in $1.
(?:\.([^.]*))? matches the file extension. ?: turns says to not capture the outer set of parentheses, so the dot is not captured in $2. ([^.]*) matches the extension and ensures that it does not contain a dot. The final ? makes the file extension part optional, just cause not all URLs have file extensions. Thus there will only be a $2 if there is a file extension.
The first back-reference is $1 not $0 AFAIK. If that doesn't do it try specifying [QSA] as well, though I doubt that's it.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?new.php?url
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)\.?(.+)$ new.php?url=$1 [L]
The first back reference should be $1 instead of $0.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?new.php?url
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)\.?(.+)$ new.php?url=$1 [L]
It also depends on what other lines of code you have in the file. It's also possible to mess up rewrites if you have another code that conflicts with it.

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