HTACCESS friendly url and allow GET method

Question

My code is

 Options -Multiviews

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /

 RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)\.html$ /index.php?cat=$1 [L]

If I access

mysite.com/name-of-category.html 

it works, but if I access

mysite.com/name-of-category.html?anything=something

it shows the webpage but $_GET["anything"] shows nothing.

Answer 1

You must specify an option called QSA or 'Query String Append':

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)\.html$ /index.php?cat=$1 [L,QSA]

It will ensure that the original query strings are also included as part of your new URL.