PHP file not able to access $_GET variable after .htaccess rewrite rule

Question

I have a number of PHP pages with query strings in the URLs on my site. I'm trying to change the URLs for SEO, to do this I'm using an .htaccess file.

I'm new to .htaccess so this is fairly basic and I'm not sure if I'm doing this right or if there is a better way to do it.

My .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/.css$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/.js$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/.png$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/.jpg$

RewriteRule ^category/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) category.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^product/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) product.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) page.php?page_id=$1

This allows me to access the page category.php?id=1 at category/1 the same for the other pages I have rewrite rules for. However my php script can no longer access the $_GET variable from the URL so it is rewriting correctly but now unable to show any of the content?

try RewriteRule ^(category|product|page)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) $1.php?id=$2 [PT] — bato3
– bato3, Commented Mar 21, 2018 at 15:31

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-21 16:21:48Z

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You will need to turn MultiViews option off and also do little bit refactoring of your rules.

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^category/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ category.php?id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^product/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ product.php?id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ page.php?page_id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Option MultiViews (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/content-negotiation.html) is used by Apache's content negotiation module that runs before mod_rewrite and makes Apache server match extensions of files. So if /file is the URL then Apache will serve /file.html.

answered Mar 21, 2018 at 16:21

anubhava

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2 Comments

Robert Over a year ago

GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and regular Bing CoPilot all failed to suggest Options -MultiViews, which fixed it for me. I also mentioned I was using WAMP during the debugging. Looks like we still need good ol' stack overflow.

anubhava Over a year ago

AI vs HI (human intelligence). No prize for guessing who will come out on top :-)

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