Question

This is my current .htaccess

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/?$ index.php?u=$1 [L]
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

It turns http://www.example.com into example.com AND interprets example.com/username AS example.com/index.php?u=username

Now I want to pass a second argument like example.com/index.php?u=username&e=email and still keep the format example.com/arg1&arg2. How do I do that in .htaccess?

Answer 1

First, you need to move the redirect before your routing rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Then, you want to check the 2 argument route:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?u=$1&e=$2 [L,QSA]

(this assumes a URL that looks like: http://example.com/username/emailaddress, but if you really want the & to separate them, use this rule instead:

RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)&([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?u=$1&e=$2 [L,QSA]

And this assumes a URL that looks like: http://example.com/username&emailaddress

Now your original rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/?$ /index.php?u=$1 [L,QSA]