Rewrite rule in htaccess mapping to wrong url

Question

I'm having an issue on this. Say, I have mypage.com/search/mykey and i want it to map to mypage.com/search?key=mykey . This is my .htaccess rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ /search?key=$1 [L]


# Pass all requests not referring directly to files in the filesystem to
# index.php.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

However, in the logs I can see that it's mapping to mypage.com/search/mykey?key=mykey .

Edit:
To give more context on what can be the issue, I included the rewrite rule just below the one I wrote. Don't know if they're messing each other.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Answer 1

You could try using RewriteBase "/" in that way apache knows that relative files must be within the rewrite base path.

RewriteBase "/"
...
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search?key=$1 [L]
...

• Note: RewriteBase affects all relative files named in rewrite rules