Crawlable AJAX with _escaped_fragment_ in htaccess

Question

Hello fellow developers!

We are almost finished with developing first phase of our ajax web app. In our app we are using hash fragments like:

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Answer 1

Here is a solution that provides a routable URL and query parameters correctly set for processing in the server side script.

Example: If you want http://yoursite.com/#!/product/20 to become http://yoursite.com/crawler/product/20

First in .htaccess

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ /crawler/index.php?_frag=%1  [L]

We need to get rid of the _escaped_fragment_ in the URL and replace it with something different, example: _frag so that the (Apache) web server does not get in to circular rewrites.

Second in crawler/index.php