Rewrite .htaccess URL variable rewrite

Question

I currently use:

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

for removing .php and .html.

But I was wondering how would I rewrite ?[variableName]=[variable].

So for example, currently this happens:

http://myurl.com/about.html to http://myurl.com/about/

But how would I then rewrite variables such as:

http://myurl.com/foo/?bar=true to http://myurl.com/foo/bar/true/

or is this not possible?

Thanks for your help, any optimizations on my current rewrite is also welcome!

EDIT: Hi All, so after some help from zx, I have gotten to this:

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

   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ([^=]+)=([^=]+)
   RewriteRule ^/?$ %1/%2?  [L,R]

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

And I link like: href="./?do=foo" and the return is /?do=foo not /do/foo/.

Here is a pastebin to 100% of the .htaccess code, including the stuff in there which was default from the host provider: click

possible duplicate of [Rewriting an arbitrary number of path segments to query parameters](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3655893/rewriting-an-arbitrary-number-of-path-segments-to-query-parameters) — Sumurai8, Jun 29 '14 at 09:06
@Sumurai8 - Although you have flagged this question for being a duplicate, it seems they have an understanding of regex. Their way of writing the answer and explaining it DOESN'T help me at all. Thats why I created this... Hoping for a basic, decent answer. — user3580557, Jun 29 '14 at 09:26
If you ask a regex-related question, you are expected to have a basic understanding of regex. If you don't, then go get a basic understanding of regex. The regex used in mod_rewrite is similar to PCRE and what PHP uses. — Sumurai8, Jun 29 '14 at 09:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 29 '14 at 14:02

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I'm getting confused about which way we're going, so here are two options.

Option 1

Link entered by user: something?do=foo

Rewritten link: do/foo

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ([^=]+)=([^=]+)
RewriteRule ^/?$ %1/%2?  [L,R]

Option 2

Link entered by user: foo/bar/true

Rewritten link: foo/bar=true

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ $1?$2=$3 [QSA,DPI,L,R]

The ^ anchor asserts that we are at the beginning of the string
Each ([^/]+) matches a path fragment and captures it to one of the Groups
/? matches an optional final slash
The $ anchor asserts that we are at the end of the string
$1?$2=$3 uses the Group captures to rewrite the url
QSA appends any pre-existing paremeters
DPI discards any path fragments
L tells mod-rewrite to stop examining rules after this one

edited Jun 29 '14 at 14:02

anubhava

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answered Jun 29 '14 at 09:38

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@Sumurai8 You're right! I keep reading the questions literally. :) Thanks for pointing that out, I'll have another look. – zx81 Jun 29 '14 at 09:47
Apparently I had in reverse... Updated the rule, please try again. :) – zx81 Jun 29 '14 at 09:50
No, just the opposite... I switched it around because @Sumurai8 told me I had it in reverse! – zx81 Jun 29 '14 at 09:59
`href="./?do=foo"` gives 404 :( This is a pain, aha – user3580557 Jun 29 '14 at 10:02
Okay, look at option 1. – zx81 Jun 29 '14 at 10:06
I have edited the original question, for some reason - I am attempting to do option 1, but it doesn't seem to be working. – user3580557 Jun 30 '14 at 01:04
I guess it doesn't show these comments within your tracker? – user3580557 Jul 01 '14 at 18:24

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