Question

I want to convert this url:

module-apple-get.html?term=st

to

file.php?module=apple&func=get&term=st

I ‘ve wrote this code in .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^module-apple-get\.html?term=([^-]+)$ file.php?module=apple&func=get&term=$1 [L,NC,NS]

but it doesn’t work.is it wrong?

Answer 1

The RewriteRule directive doe not work with query string directly therefore your rule will never work.

Here are few approaches.

1) This will do the rewrite if /module-apple-get.html is requested and will append existing query string to the new URL. This means, that if you request /module-apple-get.html?term=st&some=another_param it will be rewritten to file.php?module=apple&func=get&term=st&some=another_param. This is a safer and recommended approach.

RewriteRule ^module-apple-get\.html$ file.php?module=apple&func=get [QSA,L]

2) Another approach is to ONLY rewrite if requested URL has term=st PRESENT:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)term=st
RewriteRule ^module-apple-get\.html$ file.php?module=apple&func=get&term=st [L]

This will rewrite if you request /module-apple-get.html?term=st but will do NOTHING if you request /module-apple-get.html?some=another_param.

3) Yet another approach is to ONLY rewrite if WHOLE requested URL matches:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^term=st$
RewriteRule ^module-apple-get\.html$ file.php?module=apple&func=get&term=st [L]

This will rewrite if you request /module-apple-get.html?term=st but will do NOTHING if you request /module-apple-get.html?term=st&some=another_param.

P.S.

1. You can add any other flags if required ([NC], [NS] etc).
2. You may need to add leading slash / before file.php (depends on your setup, where this .htaccess is located etc)