Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 04/12/05 18:28

* Ospinto <ospinto@hotmail.com>:
> I used mod_rewrite to change http://www.mysite.com/page/1 to
> http://www.mysite.com/page.php?id=1 to enable a search friendly url.
> Everything works fine, except that when I try to get the URL variable ($id)
> by using $_GET, it doesn't return anything. With
> http://www.mysite.com/page.php?id=1 it gets $id just fine. I thought the
> mod_rewrite would keep the url variables??? If not, I know the alternative
> would be to get the whole url as a string and change it to an array by using
> the "/" as the delimiter and obtain $id from that. But I'd rather go that
> way if there's no other alternative.
> The .htaccess file has the following commands:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ page.php?id=$1 [L]

Try [PT] instead of [L]. [PT] does a Pass-Through -- i.e., passes it on
to the appropriate handler once the rewrite has been performed. Without
this, the page will not be processed as a CGI.

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