Hello
I am trying to create a mod_rewrite rule that will handle transparently rewriting a friendly URL to a query string redirect behind the browser.
Every tutorial says to use the 'last' flag [L]
but this does not work, per se. or it seems not to.
The original URL that works looks like this
http://<domain>/locations?state=123&city=343
my friendly URL looks like this
http://<domain>/locations/123/343
my rewrite rule looks like this
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /locations/
RewriteRule ^locations/(.*)/(.*)$ /locations?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
I get a 404 error when I try to his my friendly URL
however, if I add the 'redirect' flag [R]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /locations/
RewriteRule ^locations/(.*)/(.*)$ /locations?state=$1&city=$2 [R, L]
The URL redirects and the page loads, however the address bart gets updated to read
http://<domain>/locations?state=123&city=343
Why does the redirect work but the non-redirect not?
is it because it's too late for Apache to consume the rewritten URL and re-parse it to the actual final URL?
How might I get around this?
