Question

Here’s an example of what I’m trying to do.

Turn this:

http://example.com/products/

into this:

http://example.com/app.php?products

I also need support for queries at the end, for example::

this:

http://example.com/products/?foo=bar&boat=row

into this:

http://example.com/app.php?products&foo=bar&boat=row

This is my rewrite so far:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?\??([A-Za-z0-9\+=&]+)?$ app.php?$1&$2 [L]

This works for my first two example, however the second example only works for a url like

http://example.com/products/foo=bar&boat=row

I need to be able to have that question mark in there, which I think \?? in my rewrite should do, but it doesn’t, and instad returns 404. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

The query string can be appended using the QSA flag, you can’t match against the query string in a RewriteRule. Try this:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ app.php?$1 [L,QSA]