The requested url is http://localhost/views/items?item=abc I want to rewrite it to http://localhost/views/myfile.php?reqtype=items&item=abc please note that the last keyword of url before query items I want to move to query section as reqtype=items to get this I wrote below code in .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^views/(.*)$ views/myfile.php?reqtype=$1&%1 [L,NE]
This code is working well when I tests here verified its output (from this link) by directly pasting in browser as URL worked well. but with xampp (my version is 7.1.28) it is not working. Remember url-rewriting is working for other type of conditions ( means apache configuration is correct and working ) but this particular example is not working, Any solution will be appreciated, Thanks.
Could you please try following, written and tested with shown samples. Please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs. NOTE that here condition RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$ is very important to stop looping else it will be keep redirecting. I have checked these rules by curl command and they work fine.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/views/(items)\?([^\s]*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ views/myfile.php?reqtype=%1&%2 [NE,L]