Title: Space in Source URL – Redirection Plugin Not Working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Space in Source URL – Redirection Plugin Not Working

 *  [private](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remery/)
 * (@remery)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-in-source-url-redirection-plugin-not-working/)
 * I have source urls that contain spaces (otherwise displayed as ‘%20’), so far
   I cannot grab them using regex. So I’m not able to redirect any source urls containing
   spaces.
 * Can anyone else confirm?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)

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 *  [SCNisHere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scnishere/)
 * (@scnishere)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-in-source-url-redirection-plugin-not-working/#post-5948839)
 * I’m trying to figure this out, as well.
 * I have space between the first name and last name in url, like this: [http://mysite.com/contributor/john](http://mysite.com/contributor/john)
   doe
 * It needs to be like this: [http://mysite.com/contributor/john-doe](http://mysite.com/contributor/john-doe)
 * Here is what I “thought” should work:
 * Source: /contributor/(.*)\s(.*)
    Target: /contributor/$1-$2
 * I get a redirect loop. Any ideas?

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 * Last reply from: [SCNisHere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scnishere/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-in-source-url-redirection-plugin-not-working/#post-5948839)
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