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Asked: 2026-05-19T04:25:53+00:00

I have a site that currently serves results as example.com/index.php?show=foo and I’d like it

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I have a site that currently serves results as example.com/index.php?show=foo
and I’d like it to read example.com/show/foo.

My understanding is this would make them visible to search engine robots, and it seems a much simpler way to do this than to create a couple hundred html files…

I’ve tried the following .htaccess code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^show/(.*)$ index.php?show=$1 [NC,L]

No dice.

Also tried this, which I found on another stack overflow question:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$ /index.php?show=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Any ideas on what I’m missing here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Note that ^([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$ will try to match a request URI that only includes alphanumeric characters optionally trailed by a slash. Therefore the URI show/foo will not be matched because there are more characters at the end (ie, after the slash, where the expression expects to find the end of the string).

    Try:

    RewriteRule ^show/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$ /index.php?show=$1 [L]

    Also, to capture aditional query parameters, you could do:

    RewriteRule ^show/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$ /index.php?show=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

    This means a URL like /show/page?id=1 rewrites to /index.php?show=page&id=1

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