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I have a url like 

localhost/index?id=2

How do I hide the id part by using htaccess and just show:

localhost/index/2
Lmxc
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In order to catch the query string, you need to use either %{QUERY_STRING} or %{THE_REQUEST}:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect /index?id=2 to /index/2
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\?id=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /index?%1 [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [QSA,L]

Given that you don't have other rules that may conflict with your needs, this should work just fine.

Once you confirm its working you can change from 302, to 301 but in order to avoid caching, tests should be always done using 302.

Another way using %{THE_REQUEST} would be like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect /index?id=2 to /index/2
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\?id=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /index/%1? [R=302,L]

# Internally forward /index/2 to /index.php?id=2
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?id=$1 [QSA,NC,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [QSA,L]
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  • I have `RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php ` in .htaccess and when I add your code it doesn't work. I still see the full url. – Lmxc Sep 21 '13 at 21:26
  • @Lmxc see the update on the first rule I've posted above, try that. I have tested it with your rule and it works just fine when you access `http://localhost/index?id=200` it changes to `http://localhost/index?200`. – Prix Sep 21 '13 at 21:34
  • now the `id` isn't being passed through the url. I am getting `id` as empty. – Lmxc Sep 21 '13 at 21:41
  • @Lmxc because you asked to remove it, in order to get it now you need to use http://stackoverflow.com/a/8469777/342740 from your PHP or if you wish you can change the URL using the 2nd example which will pass the id back just fine. – Prix Sep 21 '13 at 21:44
  • @Lmxc because you're using relative path, for example `` and with relative path it assumes that the css folder is on the closest folder of the URL in this case it becomes `/index/css/my.css` in order to avoid this you need to use absolute path like this ``, same goes for images, JavaScript, etc. – Prix Sep 21 '13 at 22:01
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 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule    ^([A-Za-z0-9-+_%*?]+)/?$    index.php?id=$1     [L]

([A-Za-z0-9-+_%*?]+) <-- this part with in the brackets is used as regular expression means you are looking for any Character from A to z and from a to z and any number from 0 to 9 and symbol - , +,_,%,*,? and the + sign after the closing square bracket means more than one .

In short You are asking to for which is ([in here]+) and it's more than one ,if however you remove the + symbol after the bracket it'll return only the first character

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