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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:12:32+00:00

I can’t get a simple htaccess rewrite to work. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /?id=$1

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I can’t get a simple htaccess rewrite to work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /?id=$1 [L]

I went to mysite.com/?id=blah expecting to end up on mysite.com/blah.html. What’s wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is not how htaccess works. It doesn’t re-write the URL visible to the user, rather it looks more like an invisible re-direct.

    I’m not even sure what that rewrite in the question is supposed to be doing… BUT, for explanation purposes, let’s say you wanted a user to be able to go to:

    mysite.com/blah/

    but you wanted the server to see it as:

    mysite.com/index.php?page=blah

    You could do this:

    RewriteRule blah/ index.php?page=blah

    The user would ALWAYS SEE WHAT THEY TYPED IN. It’s not going to change the URL in the browser bar (that would be a header redirect or something, which is completely different and not really related).

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