How to redirect site.ru to site.ru/index.php?qa=questions?

Question

htaccess

Good afternoon. I have such a problem, when you open the site there is a list of articles, but there is no pagination at the bottom, but if you follow the link site.ru/index.php?qa=questions pagination appears. I wanted to fix the code, but cms is not familiar to me, I did not decide to bother. Actually the question is how to redirect when opening a site to the address index.php?qa=questions .
I tried to do it with php, so an endless redirect appeared.

Answer 1

The infinite redirect happens because you don't check the current request address.
Check by type or$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === "/"

if (!isset($_GET['qa'])) {
  //...
}