Question

Hello fellow developers!

We are almost finished with developing first phase of our ajax web app.
In our app we are using hash fragments like:

http://ourdomain.com/#!list=last_ads&order=date

I understand google will fetch this url and make a request to the server in this form:

http://ourdomain.com/?_escaped_fragment_=list=last_ads?order=date&direction=desc

everything is perfect, except…

I would like to route this kind of request to another script

like so:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ /webroot/crawler.php$1 [L]

The problem is, that when I try to print_r($_REQUEST) in crawler.php I get only:

Array
(
    [_escaped_fragment_] => list=last_ads?order=date
    [direction] => desc
)

what I’d like to get is

Array
(
    [list] => last_ads
    [order] => date
    [directions] => des
)

I know I could use php to further break the first argument, but I don’t want to 😉

please advise

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EDIT… some corrections in text and logic

Answer 1

Your forgot QSA directive (everyone missed the point =D )

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ /webroot/crawler.php%1 [QSA,L]

By the way your $1 is well err… useless because it refers to nothing. So this should be:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ /webroot/crawler.php [QSA,L]

Tell me if this works.