How to get ampersand in unscrambles URL

[Ritchie]

I have the following in .htaccess......

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RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /dev/
RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?(.*)$ test/$3?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^test/$ test.php [L,R]


(I have used the R flag to see what is being done)
All works well, except I don't get the ampersand between each pair.

input..... mysite.com/dev/test/var1/val1/var3/val3/
output... mysite.com/dev/test.php?var1=val1var3=val3

How do I do that ?

[iiinetworks]

Does it work if you replace

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RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?(.*)$ test/$3?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2 [R]

with

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RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)$ test/$3?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2& [R]
RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ test.php?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2 [L,R]

Or am I missing how it works?

Hth,
Matt

[Guest]

Does it work if you replace with

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RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)$ test/$3?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2& [R]
RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ test.php?%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2 [L,R]

Or am I missing how it works?

Hi Matt,

You think like me !!
I tried that, but the ampersand gets thrown away.
I even tried putting it immediately after the question mark - I then get a nice string of ampersands before the rest !
I'm going to see if I can find out just exactly what %{QUERY_STRING} does do !

[Guest]

I have the following in .htaccess......

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RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /dev/
RewriteRule ^test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?(.*)$ test/$3%{QUERY_STRING}$1=$2 [R]
RewriteRule ^test/$ test.php [L,R]


I solved it !!!
The

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%{QUERY_STRING}

was the problem.
I removed that and added the flag

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[QSA]

Query String Append, and now it works - unlimted number of var/value pairs all nicely translated !!

[ecartz]

To clarify, the following rules work as written:

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        Options +FollowSymLinks
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^/directory/([^/.]+.php)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)(.*)$ /directory/$1$4?
$2=$3 [R=permanent,QSA]

        RewriteRule ^/directory/([^/.]+).php$ - [L,R]

for .php files located in a certain directory. The effect is to redirect from the path URL to a normal dynamic URL.