I am working on a project and I am stuck with some .htaccess rewrite rule which is not working & I tried many things but no luck, so please help me.
Here is what I am doing:
when I open: domain.com/us/search.html?keyword=xyz&location=alabama
it should have to read the file search.php from root directory & work like this: search.php?directory=us&keyword=xyz&location=alabama
it's properly getting subdirectory, but not getting keywords and location data.
Here is my .htaccess code:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-ad(.*).html ad.php?countrycode=$1&title=$2&id=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ country.php?countrycode=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-author\.html author.php?countrycode=$1&q=$2 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-author/currentpage=(.*) author.php?countrycode=$1&q=$2¤tpage=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html?keyword=(.*)&location=(.*) search.php?countrycode=$1&keyword=$2&location=$3 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html$ search.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/latest\.html$ latest.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/submit\.html$ submit.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^error\.html$ error.php [NC,L]
ErrorDocument 400 /error.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error.html
The relevant rule is
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html$ search.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L]
Usually RewriteRule keeps an existing query string, unless you add one yourself
Modifying the Query String
By default, the query string is passed through unchanged. You can, however, create URLs in the substitution string containing a query string part. Simply use a question mark inside the substitution string to indicate that the following text should be re-injected into the query string. When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark. To combine new and old query strings, use the [QSA] flag.
To keep the previous query string, you must add the QSA|qsappend flag
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html$ search.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
This rewrites search.html unconditionally.
If you want to rewrite it only when the request contains the query string keyword=xyz&location=alabama, you must prefix the rule with a RewriteCond with %{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} keyword=.+?&location=.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html$ search.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
P.S. At the beginning, you write search.php?directory=us&..., but in the rules you have search.php?countrycode=.... Adjust the rules accordingly.
here is working .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-ad(.*).html ad.php?countrycode=$1&title=$2&id=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ country.php?countrycode=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-author\.html author.php?countrycode=$1&q=$2 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-author/currentpage=(.*) author.php?countrycode=$1&q=$2¤tpage=$3 [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} keyword=(.*)&location=(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html search.php?countrycode=$1&keyword=%1&location=%2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/search\.html$ search.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/latest\.html$ latest.php?countrycode=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/submit\.html$ submit.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^error\.html$ error.php [NC,L]
ErrorDocument 400 /error.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error.html
RewriteRule directive is applying only to the request path, that is only to the ? sign. All after the ? sign can be checked via RewriteCond and it variable %{QUERY_STRING}. Here is what you can see in the logs of mod_rewrite for the changed RewriteRule + RewriteCond:
[rewrite:trace3] applying pattern '^(.*)/search\\.html' to uri 'us/search.html'
[rewrite:trace4] RewriteCond: input='keyword=xyz&location=alabama' pattern='keyword=(.*)&location=(.*)' => matched
[rewrite:trace2] rewrite 'us/search.html' -> 'search.php?countrycode=us&keyword=xyz&location=alabama'
And for the back-references to the matched RewriteCond pattern you must use %N not $N.