apache rewrite

[saturngod]

I want to redirect

index.php?message=test

to

index.php/message/search/test

Now,I write .htaccess it like that

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} message=^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/message/find/$1 [L]

I call index.php?message=test and it's not redirect. How should I write htaccess file.

[solowandererY2K]

Why do you want to rewrite the URI when you could just use the GET parameter passed in the query string? I get the feeling that your index.php file will have to parse that query string again at some point. Are you using a framework?

I haven't tested anything, but just a quick glance gets my regex senses tingling:

• Your RewriteCond directive uses ^ and $; those match the beginning and end of a string. They don't make sense when you're trying to capture something in the middle.
• Why are there parentheses around the .* in your RewriteRule? I take it your backreference $1 refers to the (.*) in the RewriteCond (which is a somewhat advanced feature -- nice job).

[solowandererY2K]

I wish vBulletin had an "edit" button on personal posts...

First of all, backreferences to RewriteCond directives are preceded with %, not $. You would use %1 instead of $1.

Also, remember that, at some point, index.php has to decode its PHP_SELF string to extract the message name. You might want to modify the original script instead.

Here's something that works:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} message=(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/message/search/%1?

Note the question mark at the end -- it clears out the query string. Not sure why mod_rewrite cares about that...