.htaccess rewrite rule doesn't append path to query string

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I'm trying to write an htaccess file and I'm having trouble getting it to work properly. There's a directory on my site called 'gpio'. The htaccess file that I'm writing is in /var/www/gpio.

When someone requests the URL http://domain.com/gpio, I want the request to be redirected to a script, with 'gpio' appended to the query string. This is what I've got in my htaccess file:

# .htaccess
#DirectoryIndex index.html
RewriteEngine on

# I changed domain name a few months ago...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com/*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# handle the case where the directory exists
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
# this is the part that doesn't work
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/pyindex.cgi?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# handle the case where a file is requested
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/pyindex.cgi?q=$1 [L,QSA]

The problem is that when I visit this URL, I get redirected to the script, but the requested path doesn't get appended to the query string. In pyindex.cgi, when the query string is printed, it just contains 'q='. The end result is that I'm seeing my home page when I should be seeing a page representing a category of posts.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Ravi K Thapliyal · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-17 14:27:45Z

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Either have that rule inside /var/www/.htaccess or modify it as

RewriteRule ^$ /cgi-bin/pyindex.cgi?q=gpio [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ /cgi-bin/pyindex.cgi?q=gpio/$1 [L,QSA]

And, the following rule tests if the request is not a file (and hence would match directories as well)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  # remove ! to match files

answered Aug 17, 2013 at 14:27

Ravi K Thapliyal

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Steve Over a year ago

Thanks Ravi. I put the code in /var/www/.htaccess and that solved the problem.

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