Question

I want to rewrite urls like index.php?c=4 & index.php?g=23 into website.com/games/categoryname/id/
and the same thing for the game page website.com/play/gamename/id/

my htaccess file looks like this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?c=$3
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?g=$3

The problem is that only the first rewrite rule is working, if I comment it, then the second will work too, but never both :(. I’m testing this on MAMP

Can you please help me?

Answer 1

They cannot work both as they have the same condition – you have set two different actions with the same criteria and only the first one is executed.

Ah, I understood what you are trying to achieve:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(games)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?c=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(play)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_%]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?g=$3 [L]