Question

Let’s start with an example:

So requested URL would be: http://www.domain.com/product/hdd/samsung

I want to have a rewrite rule to get index.php and save everything after http://www.domain.com into php variable. So, substituted page would be for example http://www.domain.com/index.php?query=product/hdd/samsung. But I’am unable to write correct rule.

I tried this:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php?query=$1 [NC,L]

The code above isn’t working. I want to use the query in PHP code in the index.php:

if(isset($_GET["query"] )) {
   $query=$_GET["query"];
}

I find out, there is possibility to get $query via $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] instead of mod_rewrite, am I right?

For my PHP application is variable $query critical, because it’s used for loading templates.

Questions:
What solution would you recomand me? To use $_SERVER variable or mod_rewrite?
If mod_rewrite, how to write correct RewriteRule?

Thank you

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query=$1 [NC,L]

If your site is not in your server’s root dir, change RewriteBase to /some/subdir/.