mod_rewrite rule help?

noimad1

I know this isn't php specific, but I can not for the life of me get a mod_rewrite rule written. It's driving me nuts, so I'm really hoping someone can help out. (I'm terrible with mod_rewrite rules, so please bear with me if this is super simple).

I basically had a manufacturer of a product we use to drive customers to the web hard-code the URL wrong on the product. So I need:

http://mysite.com/directory1/directory2/?UBM=10057

rewritten to

http://mysite.com/directory1/directory2/index.php?UBM=10057

As you can see they basically forgot the "index.php" in the hard-coding.

And I can put my .htaccess file inside directory2 so I don't really need to worry about the URL before that....

thank you so much if you can help!

sneakyimp

no idea if this will work but figured I'd offer. put this in the htaccess file in directory2 and see what happens

RewriteRule / index.php [QSA]

noimad1

sneakyimp;10975902 wrote:
no idea if this will work but figured I'd offer. put this in the htaccess file in directory2 and see what happens
RewriteRule / index.php [QSA]

Thanks for the info. However, I need to capture the ?UBM=10057 and pass it on to the index.php file. I've tried things like:

RewriteRule /(.)$ index.php$1

RewriteRule ^/(.)$ index.php$1

etc. with no luck. I've probably tried a hundred different combinations so far.

sneakyimp

Did you try it? "QSA" stands for "query string append". I suggest you also try reading the docs.

noimad1

sneakyimp;10975936 wrote:
Did you try it? "QSA" stands for "query string append". I suggest you also try reading the docs.

Yes I did try it...but it didn't work for some reason. Yea, I need to go read the doc's again. I've been going over them, but there is so much to it and I guess I missed some of those items.

noimad1

Ok, I think I got it working myself. Thanks for the info though.

here is what I came up with after many different attempts:

RewriteRule ^$ /directory1/directory2/index.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /directory1/directory2/index.php [QSA,L]