How to manage search result with pagination on .ht

Question

Here on the application which is developed on php language.

the problem is on pagination, there is three variables(PAGE, refone ,reftow)

not the form will look like:

<from>
   <input type=text name=refone>
   <input type=text name=reftow>
<input type=submit value=search name=search>
</from>

as the user submit search it will result,

for example the -> refone = 1 and reftow = any

in the actual url = ?page=1&refone=1&reftow=%     ... this works
with .htaccess url = ?page/1/1/%                  ... not works

now as there is tow option for search (refone <-> reftow) (refone -> any) (any <- reftow) basically it's working with normal url, but when I use .htaccess for making it short and do not let user to know the exact url job so I use bellow .htaccess for better securing and url management like shortening.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteRule ^sref/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+) sref.php?page=$1&refone=$2&reftow=$3 [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^sref/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+) sref.php?page=$1&refone=$2 [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^sref/([-a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ sref.php?page=$1 [L,NC]

now in case of:

http://m.lhost/web/sref.php?page=1&refone=1&reftow=%
http://m.lhost/web/sref.php?page=1&refone=%&reftow=1
http://m.lhost/web/sref.php?page=1&refone=%&reftow=%

it works and even when I use pagination like page 2,3... it will work but after using the .htacess

http://m.host/web/sref/1/1/%
http://m.host/web/sref/1/%/1
http://m.host/web/sref/1/%/%

here it can not fine the url. Note: here after search, it will use pagination based on search result, which here with out .htaccess working fine but if I use .htacess having problem.

thanks in advance for any kind of advice.

Answer 1

You must add that % to the list of allowed characters, also your RewriteRule should start with web/sref/...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteRule ^web/sref/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([\%A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([\%A-Za-z0-9_-]+) sref.php?page=$1&refone=$2&reftow=$3 [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^web/sref/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([\%A-Za-z0-9_-]+) sref.php?page=$1&refone=$2 [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^web/sref/([-a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ sref.php?page=$1 [L,NC]