hello...
im trying to redirect "search.php?q=somethinghere" to "search/somethinghere/" but I can't do it! I'm trying to send form "<form action="search/" method="get" name="search">" like this but url goes to "search/?q=somethinghere"
RedirectMatch 301 ^/search.php?q=(.*)$ http://domain.com/search/$1/ this is also not working. whats the problem?
I don't want "?q=" in URL.
Unless you have a typo above the problem is that you're trying to redirect:
^/search.php?q=(.*)$
but the URL you're receiving is:
search/?q=somethinghere
(the difference is the .php in your redirect rule)
You may want to try using the following redirect rule instead:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/search?q=(.*)$ http://domain.com/search/$1/
It would be much cleaner and faster to do it on the client side. Have Javascript construct the search/query URL on form submit - that will save you an extra request.
However, to do it through server-side redirects, you can use mod_rewrite with RewriteCond and QUERY_STRING as the source:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \bq=([^&]*)$
RewriteRule ^search.php$ /search/%1 [R=301]
Whenever I have .htaccess questions, I always take a look at this site first: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php#cooldenial
The site provides a lot of examples and explanations for doing different things with .htaccess files. According to that site you could try something like:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+) http://domain.com/search.php?q=$1 [NC]
However, I'm not an .htaccess guru - so you may need to fiddle with it.