HTACCESS Clean URL without breaking the Query String

Question

This code below does exactly what I wanted to do, but the problem is that it breaks the query string. Whatever am passing into the URL is not being recognized by PHP $_GET. Is there a way I can use this code and also not break and query string am using on URL.

I' am just a beginner with HTACCESS, I do not have much knowledge about this.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([-\w]+)?/?([-\w]+)?/?([-\w]+)?/?$ index.php?slug1=$1&slug2=$2&slug3=$3&slug4=$4&slug5=$5

Answer 1

The original query string is automatically added to the substitution URL unless you specify a query string in the substitution URL explicitly. In that case, you have to use the [QSA] flag in the rewrite rule to merge the original query string into the substitution query string.

For details, see what the documentation of RewriteRule says about "Modifying the Query String".