Problem accessing $ GET with rewritten URL

htaccess loop

[micmania1]

I want my whole site to be rewritten from page.php to page/.

This part is working fine.

I can also use variables like page.php?var=1 as /page/var/1/

My problem is when I submit a form, the form will go to page.php?var=1

Now I think I need to redirect it to /page/var/1/ but when I do this, it is reading page.php?var=1 as it told leading the script back to square 1 resulting in a continuous never ending loop.

Is there a way around this?

Any help is appreciated,
Michael

[jdMorgan]

This may be a design problem, and a redirect is a very inefficient way of working around it, but to put this into context, you might consider posting the relevant code...

Jim

[micmania1]

Which relevant code would that be? I've tried so many things.

I've got a system which in theory should work, but sadly in reality it doesn't.

When a form is submitted it will be submitted using the get method the url will be as so: page/?var=1

I want it to change to /page/var/1/

Here is my code:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/\?(.*)=(.*)$ /$1/$2/$3/ [R=301]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /hg/$1.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /$1.php?$2=$3

[jdMorgan]

You cannot change a URL using mod_rewrite. The URL is defined by the link on your page. So, first change the link on your page, and then use mod_rewrite to "associate" that link with the proper filepath on your server.

If you use a redirect, then the problem is that "it's too late," since the original URL has already been "published" on the page.

The normal procedure is:

link to /page/var/1/ (in this case, in your form)

internally rewrite requests for URL /page/var/1/ to filepath page.php?var=1

(optional) externally redirect any direct client requests (and only direct client requests) for page.php?var=1 to /page/var/1/ in order to more quickly "clean up" search engine listings.

Your code may have been intended to do this. If it was, there are numerous problems with it, and all I can suggest is a re-write of the code:

# Redirect direct client requests (only) for dynamic URL to static URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /[^.]+\.php\?([^&=]+)=([^&\ ]+)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.php$ http://www.example.com/$1/%1/%2/ [R=301,L]
#
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?$2=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /hg/$1.php [L]

I replaced all occurrences of ".*" with more-specific negative-match patterns to greatly speed up matching and prevent unexpected/undesired results.

More-detailed info in this thread: Changing Dynamic URLs to Static URLs [webmasterworld.com]

Jim