since a few hours I'm trying to create a rewrite rule, where instead of a php file a rewrite to an shtml file should be the result. The filename is rewritten, but I always lose the get parameter (Is not passed to the shtml file when called). If I do the same with a php file it works.
Does not work:
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ LookAt.shtml?q=$1 [L,NC]
Does work:
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ LookAt.php?q=$1 [L,NC]
I already tried QSA etc. somehow nothing works (Google returns many results for .php,
for .(s)html I didn't find anything useful),
I hope someone can give me a tip, I'm already going crazy with this problem....
Thanks!
I use :
console.log(window.location.search);(To debug the issue)
That's the problem. You can't use client-side JavaScript to read the query string from a URL that is rewritten server-side. Given a request for /search/foo there is no query string on the client-side request.
Client-side JavaScript only sees the requested URL in the browser. For example:
// Outputs "https://example.com/search/foo"
console.log(location.href);
The same applies to the .php file. But you were perhaps checking $_GET['q'] or $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] instead in the server-side script?
Since you were using .shtml I assumed you would be using Server-Side-Includes (SSI) to access the query string. For example:
// Outputs "q=foo"
console.log('<!--#echo var="QUERY_STRING" -->');
If you are only using client-side JS then you'd probably just parse the requested URL directly in order to extract the search phrase. eg. /search/foo. (No need to rewrite the request to append a query string in this case. Simply rewriting to LookAt.shtml would be sufficient.)