Question

i have a problem to rewrite 2 parameters that are on the same place in a URL.

i want the following URL Structure:
category (No page or letetr is set)
category/page-2 (different page from page 1)
category/e/page-2 (letter and page is set)

The problem is that my second rule is ignored. 🙁

Here is my code:

    RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&letter=$2 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/page-([^/.]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ index.php?cat=$1 [L,NC]

Answer 1

Your second rule isn’t being ignored. Instead, anything that matches the second rule will also match the first rule, so the first rule is processed instead (and the [L] modifier prevents further processing).

Basically, the second rule is the same as the first, but with the additional condition that the characters page- must also exist between the two captured sections. This page- portion matches the ([^/.]+) condition of the first rule, so it will be matched when the first RewriteRule is processed.

Try reversing the order of the first two rules.