Question

Currently i have url parameters like this http://www.website.com/index.php?user&page=edit

And in index.php i have set if $_GET['user'] is set display user’s page and inside user’s page i have done something like if $_GET['page'] is set then find the page (in this case edit) and load that page.

It works well.,

But what changes do i need to make in htaccess file such that the url’s become like this http://www.website.com/user/ - to load user file and http://www.website.com/user/edit - to load user edit file

Here’s my htaccess file content

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?$1

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?$1&page=$2

But this doesn’t seem to work the way i expected.

If i load http://www.website.com/user/edit - it works but if i just load /user/ - it doesn't

Answer 1

Try switching both rules and adding the L-flag:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?$1 [L]

.* matches every character sequence. That means that user/edit/ is matched as well as user/. You need to place the more specific rule first, to make sure that there is a / in between. I suggest that you change that rules to something like this, since the other rules might match stuff that you did not intend:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ index.php?$1 [L]

[^/]+ will match every sequence that does not contain any /.