Search Form clean URL writing

[pushpinderbagga]

Hello there

below i have a clean form...

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<form action="http://www.my-domain.com/search.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" id="search" value="" />
</form>


if I search something example cricket or greg timmons... then the page goes to

http://www.my-domain.com/search.php?q=cricket

or

http://www.my-domain.com/search.php?q=greg+timmons

but I want the URL to be

http://www.my-domain.com/search/cricket/

and

http://www.my-domain.com/search/greg timmons/ (the space here could be replaced by a + or an _ )

any idea how to accomplish this... I tried

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RewriteRule ^search/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ search.php?q=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^search/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ search.php?q=$1 [L,NC]


but no go... even the direct url examples like

http://www.my-domain.com/search/ANYTHING-HERE/

dont open and give a not found error ?

please help.

[richardk]

You can't control the URL of a GET form with mod_rewrite, but you can redirect /search.php?q=keyword to /search/keyword/. You can control the form with JavaScript (onSubmit) and i think you should if you are going to do the redircet to save a request for those with JavaScript available.

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?q=([^&]+)(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^search\.php$ /search/%2/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/?$ /search.php?q=$1 [L]

[pushpinderbagga]

I will try this and post a reply to the full solution I install