Rewrite URL doesn't do anything

Question

I'm making a simple blog for my portfolio for school. If I click on a link to show a blogpost, my url is domain.com/post?post_link=First-Post I've read a hunderds of SO items about changing this url, but nothing works for me...

I hope that anyone see what is the problem and give a solution

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I have 3 files, blog.php(Here are all the posts showed), post.php(Here is one blogpost showed, based on post tiltle from page before) and a .htaccess file.

My blog.php:

<form method="GET" action="post.php">
                    <input type="hidden" name="post_link" value="<?php echo $post_link;?>">
                    <input type="submit" name="">
                </form>

My post.php:

$post_link = $_GET["post_link"];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM blogposts WHERE post_link='$post_link'";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
    if ($result) {
        while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
            $post_link = $row["post_link"];
        }
        echo $post_link;
    }

My .htaccess file:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^post/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)$ post.php?post_link=$1 
RewriteRule ^post/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/ post.php?post_link=$1 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

In addition to rewriting the url, everything works fine, like showing the posts and showing a single post

In blog.php, my input type hidden value is correct.

Please help..

Daniël

Answer 1

Change your action to just post

<form method="GET" action="post">

The resulting URL should be localhost/takast/post?post_link=First-Post

This Rule will then match this, but you need to keep the querystring [QSA] .

Complete .htaccess:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [QSA]