Question

I’m using codeigniter to create a search page. I’d like to rewrite a GET url to work with CI.

Example

http://mysite.com/en/search?search=widgets

becomes

http://mysite.com/en/search/widgets

I thought I could do this in the routes.php, but it doesn’t seem to grab the stuff after the ?. So now i’m thinking as a rewrite in .htaccess. Is this a good idea? What would the rewrite rule be?

Answer 1

You should use only the CI routing protocol. Anyway if you want to use .htaccess is this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^en/search/([a-z]+)  /en/search?search=$1 [L]