[SOLVED] mod_rewrite to encode the url after the?

mod_rewrite to encode the url after the?

I want to tranform all the content of the URL after the ? to be encoded

example if I write this URL in the browser:

http://www.mywebsite.com/?page=exams/product/vmware/

to be transformed to

https://www.mywebsite.com/?page=exams%2Fproduct%2Fvmware%2F

this is because Google index the above page as

http://www.mywebsite.com/product/vmware/

which does not exist

Solution

This where I have gotten to, I can replace / with % BUT not %2F because RewriteRule reads %2 as a regex group. And then even if I can replace / with %2F modrewrite will probably read it as a / then creating an infinite loop.

In my testing with the code I have so far

localhost:81/?page=exams/product/vmware/

becomes

localhost:81/?page=exams%25product%25vmware%25

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)\/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1?%1%%2 [N,E=redirect:true]
RewriteCond %{ENV:redirect} ^true$
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [R]
</IfModule>

I don't know how to (or if this can be done) with modrewrite BUT here is javascript client side way of doing this

<script>
    var p = window.location.pathname;
    var q = window.location.search;

    history.pushState('data', 'title', p+"/?"+encodeURIComponent(q.substr(1)));
</script>