Question

I have problems with how I should structure my product listing pages, products pages, webpages.

It roughly translate into this:

1. /bags/nicebag.html = /product.php?product=nicebag&category=bags
2. /nicebag.html = /product.php?product=nice_bag
3. /bags = productlisting.php?&category=bags

Problem is that webpages will share same URL structure as no.2 in the list
/contact.html = page.php?page=contact

The reason why it is not listed in .htaccess separatly is that webpages can have different names. And even the same page can be in multiple languages.

The reason of no. 1 and 2 is not combined, is that sometimes I just want to reference only to the product since it can be in multiple categories.

What kind of structure do you suggest?

.htaccess

# Mod rewrite enabled.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# ---- Rules ----

# product.php (Search for category & product name)
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)\.html?$ product.php?prod_id=$2&cid=$1 [NC,L]

# productlisting.php (Search for category)
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)?$ productlisting.php?&cid=$1 [NC,L]

Answer 1

use a different suffix for different types, e.g html for products and htm for pages or something like that

/bags/nicebag.html = /product.php?product=nicebag&category=bags
/nicebag.html = /product.php?product=nice_bag
/bags = productlisting.php?&category=bags
/contact.htm = page.php?page=contact

or

/contact/page.html = page.php?page=contact