Question

I’m using mod_rewrite to rewrite .html to .php.

RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-_]+)\.html$ index.php?p=$1 [L]

But, I’m having issues when using a $_GET in the URL. It works fine if requested URL is in this format: index.php?a=f1

BUT, if it rewrites it to home.html?a=f1, NOTHING.

Assuming it’s just the browser stops reading after it hits the .html. Is there a way to make this work?

Answer 1

You need to add the QSA flag:

RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-_]+)\.html$ index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]

The reason is best explained in the documentation:

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.