Clean AND "dirty" url

Question

I made a htaccess for clean urls that is processed by PHP after, however for my search option I want a youtube-like '?q=searchquery'.

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?d=$1 [L]

That's my htaccess and it works for all urls but 'http://www.website.com/search/?q=searchquery' doesn't. Now I've tried other rewrites such as these

RewriteRule ^(.*)/\?(.*)/$ index.php?d=$1&$2 RewriteRule ^(.*)/\?q=(.*)/$ index.php?d=$1&q=$2

They dont work.

I also had a look the entire URI using the [R] flag and everything from the question mark doesn't show.

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?d=$1 [L]

Edit: So how do I do both? \o/

Clean url: website.com/product/product-name Dirty url: website.com/products.php?p=product-name Does the same thing — Tim S.
– Tim S., Commented Feb 11, 2011 at 8:31

NikiC · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-11 08:31:38Z

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Just use the QSA (Query String Append) flag:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?d=$1 [L,QSA]

If the URL is called with a query string, the query string is appended to the generated URL.

PS: You can't match a query string within the rewrite rule. The query string is stripped off, before the rules are matched.

answered Feb 11, 2011 at 8:31

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@Tim: If that's the answer you were looking for, click on the transparent green tick next to it ;)

I've tried that about a million times, but it tells me I have to wait. I'll definately keep clicking until it works! Thanks man

@Tim: Probably there is some timespan which you can't accept the answer in.

Yeh I did it, made an account and gave you thumb up, even though its an arrow \o/