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I have rewritten a URL with .htaccess so that it looks prettier. But when I add a query string to this URL, the keys and are not visible from PHP.

In my .htaccess file, I tried several things to fix the problem, but nothing worked.

RewriteEngine On
[some code]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ ?site=$1

I have tried this rewriting, to see if it works:

RewriteRule ^search?q=g ?site=search&q=g

But if I print_r($_GET) in PHP, I will just get Array ( [site] => search ) Try it on http://kwtsports.bplaced.de/search?q=g.

I have a search field that redirects to /search?q=blablaSearchQuery, but as I said, $_GET['q'] is empty.

This also doesn't work:

RewriteRule ^search?q=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ ?site=search&q=$1

Does anyone know why this happens?

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Add [QSA] to the end of your RewriteRule. This appends the old query string to the result.

See the docs for more information.

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Does anyone know, why this happens?

Yes. You cannot test the query string in the rewrite rule, so this part of your rule will never work: RewriteRule ^search?q=g.

If you want to test a query string, you have to test it in the rewrite cond.

For example, for your RewriteRule ^search?q=g?site=search&q=g example, you would have to do something like this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^search/?$ site=search&q=%1 [L]

In this particular case, since you are not wanting to change the q value, we don't really need to test it, and you could simply pass it through with the QSA option after adding site=search:

RewriteRule ^search/?$ site=search [L,QSA]
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