I want to make a static copy of a site, retaining existing URLs. The problem is that the URLs looked like:
http://mysite/index.php?id=XXX
and Apache does not want to find the file "index.php?id=XXX". Instead, it interprets the request as the file "index.php" with the query "id=XXX".
How can I ask Apache to stop handling the question mark?
Finally, my solution:
1) rename the files from "index.php?id=XXX" to "index.php_id=XXX"
2) Add to .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} =""
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !=""
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1_%{QUERY_STRING} [L]