trouble with utf-8 chars & apache2 rewrite rules

Question

I see the post validating utf-8 in htaccess rewrite rule and I think that is great, but a more fundamental problem I am having first:

I needed to expand to handle utf-

Answer 1

This solution is based on: http://www.dracos.co.uk/code/apache-rewrite-problem/

Try this rewrite rules:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /puzzle/([^?\ /]+)
RewriteRule ^puzzle/(.*)$ puzzle.php/%1 [L]

How to get the query param:

g: $g
";

// Test if '/' is present in URL for 404's
$g2 = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 8); 
if (strpos($g2, '/') === false) {
    // do stuff
} else {
    // Send 404 header here
    echo "
404
";
}
?>

With this solution you have to send the 404 from php.