Question

I am coming from the IIS world to Apache and would appreciate some help on the rewrite rules.

I want this relative path:

/index.php?go=order&id=12345

to be rewritten as:

/go/order/id/12345

Also, if there are more parameters, they should be converted to path format:

/index.php?go=order&id=12345&action=process

becomes

/go/order/id/12345/action/process

How do I achieve this please? Thanks for any input.

Answer 1

Try putting this in your vhost config:

RewriteEngine On

# Start converting query parameters to path
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\?[^\ ]+
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^=]+)=([^&]+)&?(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/%1/%2?%3 [L]

# done converting, remove index.php and redirect browser
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\?[^\ ]+
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^/index.php/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

# internally rewrite paths to query strings
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?(.*) /$3?$1=$2 [L,QSA]

# No more path, rewrite to index.php
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.php [L]

These rules will make it so if you type in a URL like http://yourdomain.com/index.php?a=b&1=2&z=x in your browser, the browser will get redirected to http://yourdomain.com/a/b/1/2/z/x. When the clean looking URL gets requested, the 2nd set of rules internally rewrites it back to /index.php?a=b&1=2&z=x. If you want to put these rules in an htaccess file (in your document root), you need to remove all the leading slashes in the RewriteRule‘s. So ^/ needs to be ^ in the last 3 rules.

Note that if you simply go to http://yourdomain.com/index.php, without a query string, nothing gets rewritten.