Turning search query into directory format

Question

I want to turn my search URLs into directory format, meaning I want to turn:

/search?q=hi

Into:

/search/hi

How can this be done with .htaccess? I already have this in my .htaccess to remove the .php from the pages:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/$2.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Thanks in advance.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 08 '12 at 21:00

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This shoud do the trick (Remove your code for subtracting php extension):

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^search/(.+) /search.php?q=$1
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.+)

answered Jan 08 '12 at 21:00

Zeno Popovici

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So this will turn the query string into directory format and remove `.php`? Thanks. – Nathan Jan 09 '12 at 01:00
It will allow you to access both /search.php?q=search_term and /search/search_term – Zeno Popovici Jan 10 '12 at 11:31

Turning search query into directory format

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