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I have a PHP page with querystring:

http://project.dev/?a=b&c=d

As you know, I can access the querystring with $_GET superglobal array:

print_r($_GET);
/*
Array
(
    [a] => b
    [c] => d
)
*/

I want to remove questionmark from querystring with Apache and htaccess, so when a user see my website with this address:

http://project.dev/a=b&c=d

It will be identical to this address:

http://project.dev/?a=b&c=d

and I can access the querystring as before: with $_GET superglobal array.

Some Important Notes:

  1. I don't want to redirect user from URL without question mark to the URL with question mark.

  2. I have both GET and POST requests to this page.

  3. The querystring can have questionmark ? itself, for example:
    http://project.dev/?a=b&c=d?x=y.

  4. I want the addresses with question mark, automatically redirect to the one without question mark. For example when a user come to my site with this address:
    http://project.dev/?a=b&c=d
    I want to redirect user to this address:
    http://project.dev/a=b&c=d.

  5. My website has only one page: index.php. Without any subfolders.

How can I do this in htaccess?

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I have both GET and POST requests to this page.

This may be an issue, since the request body doesn't get included after a redirect. So if you've POSTed a request that has GET style params in the query string, the redirect will lose the POST params.

The rules you want will probably look something like this:

# Redirects query string to non-query string

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /\?([^\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%2? [L,R,NE]

# And back

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .=.
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /?$1 [L]

If you want a 301 redirect, replace the R flag in the first rule with R=301. The NE flag is needed s othat any encoded ? in the query string shows up as %3F instead of the % getting encoded itself. You can alternatively try replacing RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .=. with -f and -d checks:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, It didn't work. I am running at Apache/2.4.3 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.7.
@Mojtaba "it didn't work" doesn't tell me very much, if that's all there is to say then I can't help you any further. These rules work perfectly fine for me on a brand new Apache install in a blank htaccess file in the document root
I'm sorry Jon Lin. I am running PHP on windows with XAMPP, I created a folder called querystring in my htdocs and put there two files: .htaccess and index.php. In .htaccess I wrote your code, and when I go to this address http://localhost/querystring/?a my page works correctly and show querystring. But when I want to access the page without question mark, http://localhost/querystring/a, It gives me Error 404. It wants to go to a folder called a. And I tested my .htaccess. I wrote some illegal code on it, and my page gets Error 500. I'm here for giving you more info :).
@Mojtaba Your example has the request go to the document root, if your requests all go to another directory (like querystring) then these rules won't work because everything is written specifically for the document root. These rules are not portable. They need to be in the document root. If you want your index.php in a directory called querystring, then you need to replace in the first condition ^(GET|HEAD)\ /\? to ^(GET|HEAD)\ /querystring/\? and the rule /%2? to /querystring/%2?.
I move my files to the document root. But it failed. I still get Error 404. Can this be related to my Apache version?
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