Question

I am working on a wordpress blog, with the default .htaccess settings:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

In my wordpress blog, I have created a page called “mypage”. Using my rewrite settings, it is shown in the address bar as http://www.mysite.com/mypage.

I am using a custom page template and am processing some things, which include the use of GET variables. For instance:

if (isset($_GET='word')) { echo $_GET['word]; }

So, http://www.mysite.com/mypage?word=dog will display “dog”.

The problem I am having is rewriting the URL so that it can look like: http://www.mysite.com/mypage/dog, still being able to access “dog” as the GET variable.

I am not too good with mod_rewrite rules to begin with, but working from within a wordpress installation is throwing me an extra curveball.

Does anyone know what I need to add to my .htaccess to achieve this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Try the following:

RewriteRule ^mypage/([^/])/?$ mypage?word=$1 [L,QSA]

The L flag instructs .htaccess to stop processing rules, and QSA appends the query string since you might have other GET parameters on the end of the URL.

Mod_Rewrite Documentation