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I have a rewrite rule as following,it is working:

RewriteRule area/(.*) listing.php?area=$1

But when I want to use %29 in it,but when I rewrite it as following, I get 404 error:

RewriteRule area/something%29/(.*)/ listing.php?area=$1

Escaping %29 as \%29 also not works.

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Apache %-decodes the url-path before trying to apply the rewrite rules. So you should not use %-encoding in your RewriteRule. Just use the normal character.

So in your case you should just use the ). ) however is a special character in regular expression, so you should escape those in the RegEx way by adding a slash in front. So it will become \).

Your rule above should become:

RewriteRule area/something\)/(.*)/ listing.php?area=$1
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Special character can also be written in the notation \x29.
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The URL you want to rewrite is invalid as %29 would only be allowed in a Querystring, not a URL. You need to escape the % as %25 (and not with a backslash), so the resulting expression would be ...something%2529 - which should work.

For more in depth information check RFC2396.

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Thanks for your answer,but problem has not solved.%29 was just for example.I want to encode hebrew characters in this way.Can you tell why how to use %encoded character in .htaccess for url rewriting.
I don' quite understand what exactly you are attempting to do. However, you can try to escape the backreferences using the [B] flag (provided you use Apache >= 2.2, I believe), or play around with the noescape flag [NE]. More information can be found here: httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/flags.html.

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