Question

Im having a weird issue here; The following .htaccess works but now (after changing to a dedicated server) it just appends the variable at the end of the url at the browser’s address bar; For example:

If I call this..
http://www.mydomain.com/sports

It gets rewrote like this.. 🙁
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?u=sports

I just want it to stay like exactly like it was called 🙂

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?u=$1 [NC]

Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

The last rule should look like this:

RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?u=$1 [L,QSA]

[QSA] – When the replacement URI contains a query string, the default
behavior of RewriteRule is to discard the existing query string, and
replace it with the newly generated one. Using the [QSA] flag causes
the query strings to be combined.

[L] – The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set.
In most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further
rules will be processed. This corresponds to the last command in Perl,
or the break command in C. Use this flag to indicate that the current
rule should be applied immediately without considering further rules.