Page not found error when using plus"+" sign in the path aliases

Question

I am trying to create a new simple node with url alias as test+node. when i save the node the page is not showing the node, the url changes as

http://server/packets/test%2Bnode

but it only shows the following error

Page not found The requested page "/packets/test%2Bnode" could not be found.

Can anyone help me to fix this issue out...

Answer 1

Drupal want's to stop the "+" character from being a space. Drupal encodes the character and can't recognize the URL alias.

See this thread here: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125156/page-not-found-error-when-using-plus-sign-in-the-url-alias

Its probably better to avoid using characters like "+" in aliases, but maybe try adding this to your .htaccess file, with clean URL's enabled:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}  %2B 
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ %{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,QSA,NE]