URL rewrite - parameter is empty

Question

I'm struggling to get a simple URL rewrite in my htaccess file to work. It looks like this:

RewriteRule    ^getbars/([A-Za-z\d,]+)?$    getbars.php?guid=$1    [NC,L]

The idea is to redirect URLs such as /getbars/519f1dec603f9 to /getbars.php?guid=519f1dec603f9

For some reason, however, the guid parameter is empty when I try to get it in getbars.php

However, if I change it to

RewriteRule    ^bars/([A-Za-z\d,]+)?$    getbars.php?guid=$1    [NC,L]

and load /bars/519f1dec603f9 in my browser instead, it seems to work OK.

What am I doing wrong?

Do you have any other rewriterules? if you have another one above the first rule you listed, it will match that one and never get to the one you wanted. — melwil
Nope. I get the same result even when I remove all other rules — rodskagg
@andlin It could be cached by browser. Have you tried to clear cache, or try in another? — vmeln
Actually, when testing things like this, I can recommend using the incognito mode in chrome. If you want to clear caches, you can just close the tab and open a new one. — melwil

julp julp · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-27T09:47:12

Because the content negociation is enabled on your server (combined to PATH_INFO feature here)? If this is the case, the content negociation automatically "rewrites" getbars/* to getbars.php, before reading rewriting rules.

=> Can you try to add Options -MultiViews in your .htaccess?

URL rewrite - parameter is empty

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