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Asked: 2026-06-02T16:51:43+00:00

There are static html files called blahblah.html?somestring . I’m always get 404 error. When

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There are static html files called blahblah.html?somestring. I’m always get 404 error.
When I try blahblah.html%3fsomething – it semi-works (shows html source as text), but ` need URLs to be exactly with question sign.

How to make Apache show to this files with exact URL containing “?”.

I tried to rename file to “blahblah.html-somestring” + rule in .htaccess 

RewriteRule ^/(.*).html\?(.*)$ /$1.html-$2 [NE]

it doesn’t help

THIS HELPED ME:
I renamed all files to blahblah.html-somestring.html + added this to .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule ^[^.]+\.html/?$ %{REQUEST_URI}-%{QUERY_STRING}.html? [L,NC]
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  1. Editorial Team

    Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT:

    Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule ^[^.]+\.html/?$ %{REQUEST_URI}-%{QUERY_STRING}? [L,NC,R]

    This will rewrite blahblah.html?somestring to blahblah.html-somestring. However how the content will be served from blahblah.html-somestring, you will have to figure out.

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