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Asked: 2026-05-13T02:11:20+00:00

I want to enable my users to enter search queries using a URL like

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I want to enable my users to enter search queries using a URL like this:

http://www.domain.com/searchterm

or with a trailing slash like this:

http://www.domain.com/searchterm/

However, I want to capture certain search terms and redirect them to an actual directory. For example, a query like this:

http://www.domain.com/css/site.css

should actually point to the CSS file, and should not pass “css/site.css” as the search term.

Here’s my non working code:

RewriteRule ^/(.+)/?$ /index.php?search=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/css/(.+)$ /css/$1 [L]

This doesn’t work – can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Instead of excluding all your existing urls it would be a far better solution to use a script like thia as a 404 page. While capturing the 404 you could still send a 200 response but atleast it would make your rewrite rules far easyer.

    Or if you really want to do it without the 404, use this

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteRule .? /search_script [L]
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