Htaccess Redirection without changing browser url

Question

When users come to my site, they use this format of url ("demo" has no importance here) : https://example.com/page/demo-558

My system may redirect it to this format https://example.com/?view=test&page=658

But I don't want the users to see URL change in the browser, it must be invisible. I searched for hours but nothing seems to works ! Here is my current rule :

RewriteRule ^page/(.+)-([0-9]+)$ /index.php?view=test&page=$2

Answer 1

How should the browser display a dynamic page with parameters without 'knowing' the parameter?

I think you are not searching for a (transparent) rewrite, more for a reverse (not transparent) proxy. The URL will be handled between http server and proxy, the browser gets the 'simplyfied' URL.

1. Browser send to Server: /page/demo-558
2. Server rewrite to /?view=test&page=658
3. Server delivers content to ReverseProxy with /?view=test&page=658
4. ReverseProxy delivers content to browser with /page/demo-558

The ReverseProxy is part of the http-Server

Explained with pictures: https://www.akadia.com/services/apache_redirect.html