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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:41:26+00:00

I have this rewrite rule RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /location/ RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ index.php?franchise=$1 Which is

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I have this rewrite rule

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /location/ RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ index.php?franchise=$1

Which is suppose to change this URL

http://example.com/location/kings-lynn

Into this one

http://example.com/location/index.php?franchise=kings-lynn

But instead I am getting this

http://example.com/location/index.php?franchise=index.php

Also, adding a railing slash breaks it. I get index.php page showing but none of the style sheets or javascript are loading.

I’m clearly doing something very wrong but I have no idea what despite spending all day R’ingTFM and many online primers and tutorials and questions on here.

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  1. Your problem is you are redirecting twice.

    'location/index.php' matches the regex ^(.+)/?$

    You want to possibly use the ‘if file does not exist’ conditional to make it not try mapping a second time.

    RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /location/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f   # ignore existing files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d   # ignore existing directories RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ index.php?franchise=$1  [L,QSA]

    And additonally, theres the [L,QSA] which tries to make it the ‘last’ rule ( Note, this is not entirely obvious how it works ) and append the query string to the query, so that 

    location/foobar/?baz=quux  ==> index.php?franchise=$1&baz=quux

    ( i think )

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