Question

I wanna make this rather simple to ask so I can hope for a simple response. I’m somewhat new to mod rewriting (most I’ve done is a small cms using index.php?page=x and mod rewriting to that name). I have a shopping cart created by foreign people for my company before I started working here with little to no documentation and they are asking me to make the cart search engine friendly. I won’t get too dirty with the details, just need to ask a question.

I have, say, results.php?name=friendly-url. I’ve edited my .htaccess so I can access these pages with a friendly url. It works perfectly.

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ results.php?name=1

Now the cart has it written to paginate kinda awkwardly only because the $_GET variable is stupidly named. I’m trying to find out, without having to get really dirty and having to re-name files or re-route directories in the code, to make a simple friendly pagination.

The end result I’m looking for is something like starter-kits-01.html and starter-kits-02.html and so on. This is the mod rewrite I’ve been trying just to get something to work.

RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z-0-9-]+).html?p=([0-9]+)$ results.php?name=$1&pageNum_rsCWResults=$2

That, I believed, should allow me to render starter-kits.html?p=2. I’m getting no mod rewrite error, but it’s messing up my $_GET variables. I can’t do, say, /starter-kits/2/ without getting dirty and having to go through this messy code the foreign people made and change 500 lines of directories.

I’ve spent about 30 minutes on it, and I have 3 other projects going on today, so I’m going to move onto those while I wait for somebody a little more experienced with mod rewriting to give me a helping hand.

Much appreciated.

Answer 1

Just use:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+).html$ results.php?name=1 [QSA]

The QSA part tells it to forward any GET parameters on to the rewrite.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/flags.html#flag_qsa