How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?

Question

I have an .htaccess rewrite rule like this:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1

What this does is, if someone visits http://example.com/search/test the URI that is really processed is http://www.example.com/search.php?q=test.

Now, if I try to pass an extra random GET parameter to my rewritten URL, the parameter is ignored. So if I try to do visit here:

http://www.example.com/search/whatever?extra=true

The parameter extra is ignored. It doesn't seem to get passed at all.

Can this problem be fixed? If so, how?

Answer 1

You are looking for the Query String Append flag - e.g.

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1 [QSA]

See the mod_rewrite documentation for a full description of RewriteRule flags.