Question

I’ve run into a bug and I’m not sure of its source. I use mod_rewrite for the following:

 RewriteRule ^stuff$ index.php?page=stuff [L]

and it works just fine, but when I use

 RewriteRule ^(.+?)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

CSS is no longer applied to the page and the code doesn’t seem to read GET requests.

Can someone elaborate on why this happens for me?

Answer 1

Add a rewrite condition to not rewite if the file is present & use the QSA flag to allow appended parameters:

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