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Asked: 2026-06-11T04:40:22+00:00

I have a working RewriteRule : RewriteRule ^category/?(.*)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)$ category.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&id=$2&paginate=$3&sort=$4&page=$5 [L] Processed URL looks like:

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I have a working RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^category/?(.*)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)$ category.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&id=$2&paginate=$3&sort=$4&page=$5 [L]

Processed URL looks like:

www.mysite.com/category/hockey/10/18/recent-3

Now I want my URL to look like:

www.mysite.com/category/hockey?id=10&paginate=18&sort=recent-3

I have tried:

RewriteRule ^category/?(.*)?id=([0-9]+)&paginate=([0-9]+)&sort=([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)$ category.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&id=$2&paginate=$3&sort=$4&page=$5 [L]

but I couldn’t make it work.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t match against the query string (everything after the ? in the URL) in a RewriteRule. You have to do it against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable and backreference using the %:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)&paginate=([0-9]+)&sort=([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^category/?(.*) category.php?id=%1&paginate=%2&sort=%3&page=%4 [L]
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