Additional GET variables with RewriteRule

[Icy Penguin]

Howdy everyone,

I am trying to get my RewriteRules working compeltely.

Right now I have this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ $1.php

That works fine. As does this:

RewriteRule ^books/wanted$ books.php?category=wanted
RewriteRule ^books/wanted/$ books.php?category=wanted
RewriteRule ^books/unwanted$ books.php?category=unwanted
RewriteRule ^books/unwanted/$ books.php?category=unwanted
RewriteRule ^books/all$ books.php?category=all
RewriteRule ^books/all/$ books.php?category=all

However, if I navigation to books/all/?some_other_variable=wtf it doesn't work - $_GET["some_other_variable"] doesn't exist.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

[evildrummer]

RewriteRule ^books/wanted/?\??(.*)?$ books.php?category=wanted&$1

This should pretty much, not really tested at all,

Theory behind it
^books/wanted - Url should begin books/wanted
/? - It can end with or without a forward slash
\?? It can have a ? in the URL although not a must
(.*)? It doesn't have to have extra characters although it can and gets passed as the more get

[Icy Penguin]

Nothing doing with that yet - argh. One would think that would work though.

Another question then - is the \?? is similar to the /? - just the ? needs to be escaped with a backslash?

[evildrummer]

the \? means a '?' because ? is a regex character, try this: (A much simpler approach)

RewriteRule ^books/wanted/$ books.php?category=wanted
RewriteRule ^books/wanted/?(.*)$ books.php?category=wanted&$1

[Icy Penguin]

Still not working - is it possible that GET vars are ignored?

[evildrummer]

I'm idiotic, try:

RewriteRule ^books/wanted/$ books.php?category=wanted
RewriteRule ^books/wanted/\?(.*)$ books.php?category=wanted&$1 --- (Backslashed the ?)

[Icy Penguin]

This is ridiculous. Still not working. There's just gotta be something with Apache that's preventing this, 'cause I've been working this for the past two hours and it hasn't worked.

Thanks for the help.

[Voetsjoeba]

You need to apply the QSA (for QueryString Append) flag to your rules, like so:


RewriteRule ^books/all/$ books.php?category=all [QSA]Additionally, it's often handy to also specify the L (for Last) flag. Otherwise, it will not stop after it finds a match but continue searching the list and possibly find other matches that intervene with the one you actually wanted. Another useful one is NC (for NoCase), so that your URLs work both in upper and lower case.

So in the end, you'll probably want to go with:


RewriteRule ^books/all/$ books.php?category=all [L,NC,QSA]See the Apache RewriteRule documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule) for more info.

[Icy Penguin]

Yay! It works! Thank you!