Question

I have mod rewrite enabled to remove all page extentions….

This is done in httpd.conf as I am using apache on windows

the setup I have is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   Options +Indexes
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
</IfModule>

and this makes domain.com/bookings.html

appear as domain.com/bookings

I have php enabled in html files, so it parses all pages for php

But I have now put a search box on my site, and if I search for “music” it will use the url:

domain.com/search?q=music

I would like my urls to look like:

domain.com/search/music

But also, I would like to be able to type

domain.com/search/abba

And it would load the page “search.html” lets call it “search” and it would add the parameter ?q=abba , but then still look like the above example in the URL bar

I’m sure this can be achieved with mod rewrite but I am not sure how to phrase the expression.

Thanks in advance for any help I receive 🙂

Answer 1

use the kind of URLs in your html: domain.com/search/music

add this in your .htaccess file in your DocumentRoot.

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (search)/([\w\d]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1.html?q=%2 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

or add this to your .conf file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   Options +Indexes
   RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (search)/([\w\d]+) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ %1.html?q=%2 [L,QSA]

    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
</IfModule>