.htaccess notes Apache had an update where .HTACCESS needs to be changed for rewrite rules with spaces in them... any of the entries in here with a space won't work until I figure that out. RewriteRule "^w/(.*)?$" "/wiki.php?page=$1" [NC,L] FIXED: I need to add the "B" flag which tells Apache to re-encode special characters ( ) when passing them to php file. Without the flag, the variable is passed literally which is what was breaking my URLs with spaces