Enable human readable URL's in .htaccess - apache

Question

Preface: Yes this question seems like duplicated, and I found related questions, but answers from there didnt help to me. :(
Hello, I want to add human readable URL's support for my PHP project. For now my URL quesry string looks like:
index.php?url=main/index
I would like to make it looks like:
index.php/main/index
I read following articles:
Stackoverflow
Cheatsheet
Stackoverflow
Stackoverflow
But when I do this:
var_dump($_GET['url']); // get empty array
, get empty array like no url parameter added.
My current .htaccess:
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [NC]
Can somebody help me please? Thanks!

Answer 1

URL: http://domain.com/index.php/controller/action
Rewritten URL: http://domain.com/index.php?url=controller/action
.htaccess
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]
Explanation:
The .* in the pattern ^index.php/(.*)$ matches everything after index.php/ on the incoming URL. The parentheses helps to capture the part as variable $1, which is then added at the end of the substitution URL /index.php?url= + $1.
[L, QSA]:
L ignore other rewrite rules, if this fits.
QSA means query string append.

Answer 2

You have
index.php?url=main/index
Yuo want to rewrite (and then user redirect) to this
index.php/main/index
What about trying this?
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^url=([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://mydomain.site/index.php/%1/%2 [R=302,L]
R=301 or 302 depend on your need
On this example i assumed that on the original url there are only a-z chars.
Just to clarify (due the fact generally the process is inverse) on this way the users will be redirect, this rules does not convert links on your page.

Answer 3

In line
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [NC] the (.*) matches the part of the url up to '?' where the query begins.
To use the values passed in the query you need the QSA flag. Means Query String Append.

Answer 4

If Your URL : www.abcd.com/index.php/abcd/...
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 5

Try the below code, Only considered for index.php you can replace it as per your requirement. Let me know if you need further assistance.
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)/([0-9a-zA-Z\/_-]{1,99}) index.php?url=$2
What worked for me is:-
<?php var_dump($_GET); ?> this is the only thing I did on url http://localhost/baba.php/abcd . and original .htaccess file
DirectoryIndex baba.php
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(baba\.php)*/([0-9a-zA-Z\/_-]{1,99}) baba.php?url=$2

Answer 6

For Magento 2.4 Magento will always drop any GET parameters from the URL in a htaccess rewrite. The only way I found to make it work was to create a rewrite module. The setup is here: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/158811/109113