How to make the correct URL?

Question

HTML

There is a search form

<form action="/search.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="w">
<button type="submit" style="display: none;"></button>
</form>

and there is a working rule in .htaccess

RewriteRule ^search/([a-z,A-Z,0-9,-]+)/?$ /search.php?w=$1 [L,QSA]

When submitting the form, the URL looks like this /search.php?w=word , but such a URL /search/word also works thanks to .htaccess, but how to make it redirect to a second, more understandable URL immediately after submitting the form?

Answer 1

Alternatively, just redirect it using JS. This means that you need to catch the form submission, build the address based on the entered data and redirect to the required address.