htaccess url rewrite with question mark

Question

I'm having a problem in .htaccess, specifically on redirection.

I wanted to rewrite this url:

http://www.domain.com/?mod=country

to

http://www.domain.com/country

I already tried this .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^\?mod=(.*)$ $1

I tried working on it without the question mark character and it works fine. I have escaped the question mark because it's part of the special characters, but still, I couldn't get it work.

Can you tell what I'm missing?

Don't you mean the other way around? When a visitor types `www.foo.com/country` it should internally be seen as `?mod=country`? — Qtax, Feb 13 '12 at 02:14
@jaysonatic you want a permanent redirect from /?mod=country to /country? — Book Of Zeus, Feb 13 '12 at 02:17
@Qtax I'm doing this because I wanted to get rid of dynamic urls. — Jayson Tamayo, Feb 13 '12 at 02:24
@jaysonatic Check qtax answer and instead of [QSA] use [R=301,L] — Book Of Zeus, Feb 13 '12 at 02:26

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '12 at 02:24

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Directly translating your requirements to rewrite rules:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ %1

But you probably want something more flexible like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)mod=([^&]+)
RewriteRule /?(.*) %1/$1 [QSA]

These rules apply to the root of your domain.

If you want to do an external redirect add the R flag to the rewrite rule.

answered Feb 13 '12 at 02:24

Qtax

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The first code outputs: http://www.domain.com/country_data?mod=country_data, I wanted it to be just /country_data. Thanks. – Jayson Tamayo Feb 13 '12 at 02:29
how do I remove the trailing ?mod=country_data? – Jayson Tamayo Feb 13 '12 at 02:39
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@jaysonatic To remove the querystring add a `?` i.e change the rule to `RewriteRule ^$ %1?` – Ulrich Palha Feb 13 '12 at 02:45
@UlrichPalha output is just the same, i'm using `htaccess.madewithlove.be` to check htaccess code. – Jayson Tamayo Feb 13 '12 at 02:48
@jaysonatic The site does say `This was made in a very short amount of time, so there might be a few bugs we overlooked` - so I would test it locally – Ulrich Palha Feb 13 '12 at 02:52
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@jay, `RewriteRule ^$ %1? [R=301]` – Qtax Feb 13 '12 at 03:32

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