Question

I’m trying to make this:

www.amazingjokes.com/cache/search.php?term=programming

to go to this:

wwww.amazingjokes.com/popular/programming

But I can not get it to work properly. I tried stuff like

RewriteRule ^cache/search.php?term=(.*)$ /popular/$1 [R=301,L]

but to no avail.

Answer 1

RewriteRule doesn’t receive the query string, what it’s actually receiving is just the path to the file. So while you’re going to /cache/search.php?term=programming, what it’s actually receiving is just /cache/search.php.

You can, however, use a RewriteCond on the %{QUERY_STRING} variable:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     ^term=(.*)$     [NC]
RewriteRule ^/cache/search.php$ /search/%1      [NC,L,R=301]