Development .htaccess rewrite - keep GETs

my colleague has a website which currently rewrites page_XX to ?page=XX.
he'd like it to cope with extra GETs
e.g.
page_XX?q=1&w=2
to
?page=XX&q=1&w=2

but we've struggled with getting the extra GETs to even register with the PHP.

suggestions highly appreciated.

 

I don't know if it's any help, but I've got a .htaccess which rewrites blog.slickhouse.com to slickhouse.com - and it deals with any subpages/arguments. So, if you went to blog.slickhouse.com/something, it'll rewrite it to slickhouse.com/something - the same with PHP pages.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.slickhouse.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blog.slickhouse.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://slickhouse.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Something like...

Code:

RewriteRule ^page_(.*?)?q=(\d+)&w=(\d+)$ page=$1&q=$2&w=$3

 

unfortunately the extra variables are variable, so he can't rely on anything which specifies them.

would .*? make sense? wouldn't that mean: any char;zero or more times;zero or one times...

 

Code:

RewriteRule ^page_(.*?)?(.*)$ page=$1&$2

 

wouldn't the question mark need escaping?

 

yes, it's not a copy and paste solution.

 

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I have this problem again - any further ideas anyone?

 

If page_xx?q=1&w=2 is being parsed by PHP, you can (maybe) do this:

PHP:

$parsed = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$page = "page=" . substr($parsed['path'], -2);
$get = ($parsed['query'] != null) ? "&" . $parsed['query'] : "";
header("Location: ?{$page}{$get}");

 

heh, I had always assumed that $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] would be rewritten too, but it's not. so thank you!