: Rewrite url /powers/power.php?power I want to rewrite my url, the url uses a variable I think its called, but I want to shorten the url to http://xatwebs.co/powers/gold as it is currently http://xatwebs.co/powers/power?power=

@Alves908

You only need RewriteEngine On once at the top of your .htaccess file.

Always have external redirects before internal rewrites.

So, in order to redirect from the "ugly" (/powers/power.php?power=red) URL to the "pretty" (/powers/red) URL (in order to satisfy search engines and anyone who has linked to your site), you could do something like this:

# Redirect typed querystring URLs to "pretty" URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ?power=([^ ]*)
RewriteRule ^powers/power.php$ /powers/%1? [R=301,L]


This checks against THE_REQUEST to avoid a potential rewrite loop (caused by the following rewrite).

Then to internally rewrite from the "pretty" URL back to the "ugly" (real) one, something similar to what you have after your update:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^power=
RewriteRule ^powers/(.*) /powers/power.php?power= [L]


Although, from your examples, it's a bit unclear whether /powers is part of the URL or not (you mention it in the description but it appears to be omitted from your "working" update)? So this may need adjusting. This also replaces your extensionless URLs code snippet as well.

Don't rewrite direct requests for files that already exist on the filesystem - just in case you have scripts or stylesheets that match this pattern. Also this doesn't rewrite requests that already have the query string parameter.

Make (.*) more restrictive if you need to.

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