Question

Need some quick help with url rewriting.

Currently using the following in an htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex /index.php?Screen=Home&Category=1

If we hit www.website.com it loads -> /index.php?Screen=Home&Category=1 and we don’t show the ugly url.

We are wanting to capture url parameters however but they are being sent to a 404. So if you navigate to www.website.com/?param=1 it doesn’t work. We are not capturing the url parameter and appending it to the directory index string.

So we want www.website.com/?param=1 to hit /index.php?Screen=Home&Category=1&param=1

We tried to use:

RewriteRule ^/\?(.*)$ /index.php?Screen=Home&Category=1&%1 [L]

But had no luck…

Any ideas on how to do this?

Answer 1

You can’t match against the query string in a RewriteRule expression. But using the QSA flag essentially does what you want:

RewriteRule ^/?$ /index.php?Screen=Home&Category=1 [L,QSA]