>
> https://example.com/search?searchword=CVE-2021-4014&Search=
>>
>> I've tried the following RewriteCond/RewriteRule in various forms, but not
>> sure what I'm doing wrong.
>>
>> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^searchword=(.*)
>> RewriteRule ^ q=$1 [NC,L]
>>
>> Ideas for what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Is the query parameter case sensitive? That’d be important for
> RewriteCond to know. Also, isn’t that the “starts with” operator, ^? What
> if the parameter comes second? A bit verbose, but:
>
> ^.*searchword=(\w{1})[&]{0,1}.*$
>
Whoops, meant to add a comma in the capturing group. Also the end is
ambiguous. Maybe
searchword=(\w{1,})
Should match all the way to the end of the query value (& is not in \w), or
the end the query string if it’s the last parameter.
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