Convert path to one get variable

Question

How would I go about transforming this URL:

http://example.com/this/is/my/path.html http://example.com/this/is/my/path.html?var=2&varr=3

to this:

http://example.com?path=this/is/my/path.html http://example.com?path=this/is/my/path.html&var=2&varr=3

I've seen many tutorials on how to convert it to multiple get variables but none for the whole path that included the get variables as well.

Answer 1

See my edit below

Try this :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?path=$1 [QSA]

The first part of the RewriteRule will capture the full path without the query string (GET parameters). The second part of the RewriteRule will rewrite with a GET parameter named "path" containing the full path we captured before. And then, using the [QSA] flag (which should be default behaviour of Apache), we tell Apache to keep the original GET parameters and append then to the new query string.

EDIT :

There is a major problem with this answer, a redirection loop. Here a better solution :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !path=
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?path=$1 [QSA,L]