Changing ? into & in rewrite

[ocon]

Hello. I'm using the following rewrite:

rewrite ^/dir1/(.*)$ /dir2/index.php?title=$1

If someone tries accessing: /dir1/Page_title
Then the page served is: /dir2/index.php?title=Page_title

This works great, but sometimes scripts try to add parameters to the pages (like Google Analytics when viewing traffic flow).

They might try to load up: /dir1/Page_title?cPath=abc&location=xyz
Then the page served is: /dir2/index.php?title=Page_title?cPath=abc&location=xyz

This is a problem because I have two question marks, and the parameters are not passing correctly.

What I would like to do is to modify my rewrite rule to change any ? into &

Then the scripts might try to load up: /dir1/Page_title?cPath=abc&location=xyz
But the page served is: /dir2/index.php?title=Page_title&cPath=abc&location=xyz

[sublime1]

I assume your example is a RewriteRule (you have "rewrite"). If so, check out the Query String Append (QSA), which should do the trick for you.

Tom

[g1smd]

Use the [QSA,L] flags here.

Having specified new parameters in the rewrite, you have over-ruled the automatic re-appending of the original parameters. Use the QSA flag to re-append them. Use the L flag too, otherwise you might see odd behaviour for some requests.

[ocon]

Thank you very much, that works perfectly. I would have thought the solution would have been much more complex. On a side note, when finding what the equivalent flags were for nginx, I found it was already automatic for rewrites!

[ocon]

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