php - redirect adding %20HTTP to end of the url -

im redirecting this:

example.com/category/name-of-title/number

to this:

example.com/name-of-title/number

everything working perfect except adding %20http end of url after redirect so:

example.com/name-of-title/number%20http

here code:

rewritecond %{the_request} /category/(.*)/(.*) [nc]  rewriterule ^ /%1? [r=301,l] 

because as documentation states, the_request is

“[t]he full http request line sent browser server (e.g., "get /index.html http/1.1")”

– in case, get /category/name-of-title/number http/1.1, , applying pattern /category/(.*)/(.*) onto results in part name-of-title/number http first match (and remaining 1.1 second), because of greediness of regular expressions.

it nonsense anyway use rewritecond , value the_request – simple rewriterule should work fine:

rewriterule ^category/(.*)/(.*)$ /$1/$2 [r=301,l] 

and if want match anything behind category/ anyway, don’t need 2 capturing subpatterns, use

rewriterule ^category/(.*)$ /$1 [r=301,l]