Emulating the QSA (query string append) using redirect handler

[thul]

It took a lot of googling and asking in the IRC channel to get this. Might be handy to add thing to the cookbook / docs.

Most applications will work if your regular expression is ^(.*)$ and the substitution is /index.php?path=$1

But if you have an application that uses urls like "/settings/panel/ssh/?edit=true" you will end up with a rewrite like: "index.php?path=/settings/panel/ssh/?edit=true" which will break and return a 404 due to the double ?

The solution is to use the regular expression: ([^\?])(?:?(.))?
and as substitution: index.php?path=$1&$2

If $2 is empty you'll have a weird trailing & but this shouldn't break anything.

note: Phabricator is one of the applications that uses query strings in their friendly urls.

[lylebrown]

@thul I'll see if I can figure it out myself, but can you put your full list of cherokee rewrite rules for phabricator up on github, similar to how I've done for YOURLS in lylebrown\YOURLS-Cherokee?