Title: Apache module doesn't support special characters
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Apache module doesn't support special characters

 *  [Alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asterix/)
 * (@asterix)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/)
 * When we switched from using the WordPress module to the Apache module (for performance
   reasons) all of our redirects whose destination URL’s contained the special characters(&,
   =,etc.) stopped working.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)

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 *  [margje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/margje/)
 * (@margje)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/#post-4642741)
 * Hi Alex, is the problem solved allready?
    I’ve another question. How to switch
   from wordpress to apache?
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [Alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asterix/)
 * (@asterix)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/#post-4642742)
 * Hi Margje,
 * We switched back to the WP module. Visit WP Admin > Tools > Redirection > Modules
   > to see the modules. The interface has changed somewhat since I wrote that, 
   so I’m not seeing an option to select either one, even though you can seemingly
   adjust some basic settings.
 * The WP module doesn’t hand all characters either, for those we use double quotes
   around the URL and manually redirect via htaccess.
 *  [margje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/margje/)
 * (@margje)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/#post-4642743)
 * Hi Alex,
 * Thanks, i cans see the modules indeed but no option to switch between them?
 *  Thread Starter [Alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asterix/)
 * (@asterix)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/#post-4642745)
 * As mentioned above, I don’t see the option either.

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 * Last reply from: [Alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asterix/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apache-module-doesnt-support-special-characters/#post-4642745)
 * Status: not resolved