: How to secretly rewrite Google Analytics campaign codes to main page? I want to create a simple "secret" mod_rewrite redirect (not shown in user's browser address box) to redirect: http://www.mydomain.com/code

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I want to create a simple "secret" mod_rewrite redirect (not shown in user's browser address box) to redirect:
www.mydomain.com/code -> www.mydomain.com/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code

And if possible also add if missing, so:
mydomain.com/code -> www.mydomain.com/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code

I tried:

# Custom rewrites
RewriteRule ^code/?$ /?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code [L,NC,QSA]


My .htaccess mod_rewrite other rewrite rules look like this:

# redirect to www form
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^([a-z]+).%{HTTP_HOST} [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.%{HTTP_HOST}/ [R=301,QSA]
# rewrite file to file.php, ignore directories, ignore existing non-php files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) .php [L,QSA]


I tried to put the custom rewrites section either in front of all the other rules or in the middle or remove [QSA]/[NC], but the problems are that it either


Doesn't rewrite secretly
Doesn't show rewrites in Google Analytics (I'm sensing it's because it does some other rewrite before and therefore Google Analytics won't count the campaign)


What am I doing wrong?

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