URL Rewrite - Query String

Question

I have a news (blog) site that returns urls in the following format when individual posts are selected:

website.net/sitenews.php?q=posts/view/postname/12
         


        

Answer 1

Try this instead in your .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/%1? [R=301,L,NE]

R=301 will redirect with https status 301
L will make last rule
NE is for no escaping query string

%1 is capture group for query string q= (whatever comes after q=)
$1 is your REQUEST_URI