Question

I’m trying to do a query on some information if someone types, for example:

http://domain.com/abracadabra 

If someone enters in this address, I want it to go to:

search.php?query=abracadabra

I’ve done rewrites with queries before, but not from the root.
Any help would be great!

Would it be possible to check if the string being searched is numerical and send it to a different PHP page? Maybe link to a directory with a new .htaccess?

Answer 1

Doing it from the root is no different than doing it anywhere else. The below will turn every request for a resource (that doesn’t exist in the file system) to search.php.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ search.php?query=$1 [L,QSA]