.htaccess RewriteRule for specific query string

Question

I would like to RewriteRule for a Specific query attribute

e.g.

https://website.com/shop/?req=cosmetics

to:

https://website.com/shop/cosmetics

I achieved that by doing:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^shop/(.+)$ shop/?req=$1 [L,QSA]

My problem is that this will replace any query attribute...

What i'm looking for is to perform the RewriteRule explicit on '?req=' and let any other attr e.g. '?foo=' just to pass and execute.

I know that this is possible with RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} but i can't make it work...

Thanks

Your rule is rewriting /shop/<anything> to /shop/?req=<anything>. What change do you want in this rewrite behavior? — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Feb 14, 2018 at 19:30
I would like to ignore the rewriting rule in any other case but '?req='. So if i send /shop/?foo=whatever it should just ignore it like i never had any rewriting rule. — Alex
– Alex, Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 7:36
so i assume that i need a condition something like this %{QUERY_STRING} ^?req= . Only then it should let the rewrite rule to happen! — Alex
– Alex, Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 7:49
Is this your complete .htaccess? As I said you current rule is is rewriting /shop/<anything> to /shop/?req=<anything>. If you enter in browser /shop/?foo=<anything> then current rule isn't doing anything. — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 7:55
Hey anubhava, it turns out that i had a bug going on in my code... I was not returning false after my ?foo=test request, the code was just keep going doing other staff so i got confused... Thanks for confirming that this peace of code is correct! — Alex
– Alex, Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 8:11

Mohammed Elhag · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-15 12:36:38Z

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The solution is to change first rule and do something like this,otherwise server can't predict itself other query string except the existing one req :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^shop/(.*)/(.*)$ /shop/?$1=$2 [L,QSA]

So, the Request https://website.com/shop/?req=cosmetics will be from https://website.com/shop/req/cosmetics request and .as you suggested , https://website.com/shop/?foo=cosmetics will be from https://website.com/shop/foo/cosmetics request

If you want to apply this code from shop directory .htaccess file :

   RewriteEngine On       
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shop/merchant 
   RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ /?$1=$2 [L,QSA]

it will exclude merchant as well , Test it .

edited Feb 15, 2018 at 12:36

answered Feb 14, 2018 at 20:54

Mohammed Elhag

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2 Comments

Alex Over a year ago

My app lives in the same directory '/shop/' the process is happening internally by checking the query attributes '/shop/?req=cosmetics' is to fetch cosmetic products, but i would like when i have e.g. /shop/?merchant=123 to NOT do any rewriterute! So i want the RewriteRule to happen ONLY when i have /shop/?req=<something>

Alex Over a year ago

Hey Mohammed Elhag, thanks for checking in to this, it turns out that i had a bug in my code that got me confused! :/

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