.htaccess redirect and frontpage2003 w/ Extensions enabled

[mjdonovan]

SUMMARY

I have been wrestling with a problem for the past few days.

I have a website created using Frontpage2003 with extensions and I use the publishing tool. The site resides on an Apache server.

I am getting some 404 errors due to changing some url paths and I am attempting to edit the .htaccess file.

DETAILS

I need to redirect an old URL to a new one and have tried many attempts to do this unsuccessfully. The root of my problem seems to be spaces in my url titles that get replaced with %20.

EXAMPLE: http://www.example.com/In-Wall%20Speaker%20System.htm

I am trying to do the following redirect but it does not work:

redirect permanent ^Ceiling%20Fan%20Wiring\.htm$ http://www.example.com/Electrical%20Articles/Ceiling%20Fan%20Wiring.htm

After doing a few variations of the below test I can see that I can do a redirect when no spaces (%20) are involved with the orignal Url. Once I try to redirect a page that had spaces in the title (%20) the below code causes 500 server error:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wacko\.html$ index.html [L]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:37 pm (utc) on July 22, 2006]
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