mod rewrite problem

[Lucidity]

I'm trying to accomplish a routine dynamic to static redirection, but on this particular site it is confounding me.

I want to convert index.php?var=5 to /var-5

This is my what I have in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^var\=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /var-%1 [R=301]

What I get is this: /var-5?var=5

No matter what I try, "?var=5" is appended to the end of the URL. What am I doing wrong?

 

[casidnet]

try
RewriteRule ^var-([0-9]+)$ index.php?var=$1


You want to rewrite from var-5 to index.php?var=5 not the other way right?

 

[Lucidity]

Other way around

 

[Gumby!]

You're doing an internal redirect, add a ? to the end to remove the query string

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /var-%1? [R=301]

 

[Lucidity]

Awesome, thanks