how to modify .htaccess file to give QUERY_STRING? - php

Question

I have the below htaccess file in my website and it was working perfectly for last two years. Recently i migrated the server to a new hosting partner and seems it not working as expected. I have confirmed that the server is supporting mod_rewrite module. And i could see the [QUERY_STRING] => is null what ever URL i specify, and all the URLs are routing to the home page. Can any one tell what i need to modify. i saw a lot many answers in stackoverflow and nothing worked for me. I am just a begginer in this htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
# REWRITING index.php AS index #
RewriteRule ^index/?$ index.php [NC]
# Route The Pages #
RewriteRule ^index/([{a-z}]+)/?$ index.php?$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index/home/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?home&p_id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index/page/([{a-z}{\-\}{0-9}]+)/?$ index.php?page&show=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index/gallery/([{image}{video}]+)/?$ index.php?gallery&type=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^index/gallery/([{image}{video}]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?gallery&type=$1&album=$2 [NC,L]

Answer 1

If you are matching video or image then there is no reason to have {video} as { and }will match literally{video}`.
Have your .htaccess this way:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# REWRITING index.php AS index #
RewriteRule ^index/?$ index.php [NC,L]
# Route The Pages #
RewriteRule ^index/([a-z]+)/?$ index.php?$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/home/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?home&p_id=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/page/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?page&show=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/gallery/(image|video)/?$ index.php?gallery&type=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/gallery/(image|video)/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?gallery&type=$1&album=$2 [NC,L,QSA]

Answer 2

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
The empty query string is consistent with MultiViews being enabled (perhaps as a result of a server update). Try disabling MultiViews at the top of your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
If MultiViews is enabled then a request for /index/<something> would result in an internal subrequest to /index.php/<something> and none of your remaining directives will match.
However, you do still need to update your regex to something like what anubhava suggests, since your current regex is probably matching a lot more than you intend. But your current patterns are ambiguous. For example, what should [{a-z}{\-\}{0-9}]+ match? It looks like you perhaps intended it to be a <letter>-<digit>? However, it currently matches any combination of letters, digits and hyphens (which is how anubhava has interpreted it)?