Question

i have a link like

http://for.example.com/?type=foo-bar

and i want it to be displayed in the address bar like this

http://for.example.com/foo-bar

so when the user types

http://for.example.com/foo-bar

it should re-direct to

http://for.example.com/?type=foo-bar

without the user knowing about the backend query string processing

plz help…

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^foo-bar?$  index.php?type=foo-bar [QSA,L]

Or if you want to use different variables (values) instead of “bar”

RewriteRule ^foo-([A-Za-z0-9_]+)?$  index.php?type=foo&someVar=$1 [QSA,L]

But you couldn’t use dash (-) after “foo-“, only alphanumeric and underscore.