Question

I’m doing what I thought was a simple .htaccess rewrite to create nicer urls. I want a url like this:

http://my-site.com/design/design-name/

to replace urls like this:

http://my-site.com/store?design=design-name

so I added this rule to my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^design/(.+) http://my-site.com/store?design=$1 [L]

However, it is behaving as if there is an R flag and externally redirecting (changing the url in the browser’s address bar). The redirection works fine, but shouldn’t it be only internally redirecting with the rule I’m using?

Answer 1

Ansari is correct. As mentioned here, including a domain name in the target URL turns it into a 302 redirect. Change

RewriteRule ^design/(.+) http://my-site.com/store?design=$1 [L]

to

RewriteRule ^design/(.+) store?design=$1 [L]

and it should work correctly.