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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:22:34+00:00

As the topic – How do I rewrite a POST request from a form

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As the topic – How do I rewrite a POST request from a form to a user-friendly URL with htaccess?

The scenario:

I have a webpage that uses a search-form. When I submit that form using method=”post” it works flawlessly. BUT I don’t get any text in the browser address-bar (of course), but that’s exactly what I want! And that by using method=”POST”, NOT method=”GET”!

Let’s say I search for “banana”. The PHP script translates the POST-request and the script shows all receipts with the word banana in it. But the URL then of course shows something like http://www.example.com/search/ (yes I use mod_rewrite for that). I want the URL to look like http://www.example.com/search/banana/.

The original request from the server looks like ….xample.com/index.php?p=search and the post is of course hidden and would otherwise be ….xample.com/index.php?p=search&q=banana.

I’m not new to mod_rewrite rules and conditions but I just can’t get it to work…

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Quoted from: Apache mod_rewrite question

    You can’t use POST data for mod_rewrite. This is because the POST data isn’t in the HEADER of the http request, it’s in the BODY.

    My suggestion would be that you perform an action on the posting page that adds the prefix to the URL, which would mean you don’t even need to rewrite.

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