Question

I am a complete noob when it comes to the .htaccess file… What I’m trying to do is check to see if a GET variable exists, ?si=10, and pass that onto the rewrite, but only if it exists.

RewriteRule ^user/([^/\.]+)/?$ profile/index.php?name=$1

This way when I have say website.com/user/Username/ it goes to, on the server, website.com/profile/?name=Username instead. But when I add do website.com/user/Account/?si=10, the server isn’t passing the si variable onto the actually loaded page. Any idea how I would do this? Sorry if I worded this badly..

Answer 1

Try the QSA flag

 RewriteRule ^user/([^/\.]+)/?$ profile/index.php?name=$1 [QSA]

From the manual…

When the replacement URI contains a
query string, the default behavior of
RewriteRule is to discard the existing
query string, and replace it with the
newly generated one. Using the [QSA]
flag causes the query strings to be
combined.