How do I create an Apache mod_rewrite rule that works with urlencoded values?

Question

I'm using the php function urlencode http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php to encode a GET parameter $_GET['test']

I want to use an apache rewrite rule to rewrite urls like website.com/%CE%A6 to website.com/index.php?test=%CE%A6

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9])/?$ /index.php?test=$1 [NC,L]

What is a regex that can be used in place of [a-z0-9] to accept the range of valid characters returned by the urlencode function?

Answer 1

You can just capture anything until you get a / with a RewriteCond to prevent looping:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?test=$1 [QSA,L]