I am currently using the following Apache directive to rewrite the url

RewriteRule ^/content(.*).html$ /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=$1 [L]

http://www.anysite.com/content1234.html 

to

/contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=1234




This works great until the url has parameters like the following:


http://www.anysite.com/content1234.html?a=1&b=2&c=3


In this case, the rewrite rule doesn't work.

Please provide a RewriteRule that will work for both type of urls


So http://www.anysite.com/content1234.html 

is rewritten as /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=1234

and 

http://www.anysite.com/content1234.html?a=1&b=2&c=3

is rewritten as /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=1234&a=1&b=2&c=3

TIA!

Try using the following two rules (the second one is the one you wrote
with a backslash added to escape the dot). Together they should do the
trick.

RewriteRule ^/content(.*)\.html\?(.*)$ /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=$1&$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/content(.*)\.html$ /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=$1 [L]

Thanks. I forgot to slash out the dot. 

The new rule you wrote doesn't work. I had done something similar, but
it didn't work either. hmmmmm. The second rewrite rule works fine. I
looked over the apache config and didn't see anything out of the
ordinary. I also commented out all RewriteRules except the new one you
sent and it still made no difference.

I am running Apache 2.0.46. I am not sure if that would make any difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks again...

Yeah, I'm sorry for posting that without checking first.

I'm pretty sure this should work though:

RewriteRule ^/content(.*)\.html$ /contentmgr/showdetails.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

Notice the "QSA", it means that the stuff after "?" on the right gets
added to the query string. Without it the query string is replaced.

Please check if this works for you and sorry for the confusion.

Excellent! That works perfectly!