Mod Rewrite - Redirecting based on having GET parameters or not

Question

I want to redirect these URLs:

http://example.com/search to http://example.com/?page=search

http://example.com/search?q=keyword to http://example.com/?page=search&q=keyword

I am trying to use this in .htaccess but doesn't work:

RewriteRule ^search$ ?page=search [nc]
RewriteRule ^search\?(.*)$ ?page=search&$1 [nc]

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Assuming you want to direct the request to the index.php file include the file in the rules. E.g.

RewriteRule ^search$ index.php?page=search [L]

Give it a try.