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Asked: 2026-05-18T02:22:10+00:00

I want to use static URLs on my site, so when a user goes

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I want to use static URLs on my site, so when a user goes to

http://www.domain.com/toys/ – he will see the toys category page

and when he goes to

http://www.domain.com/toys/playing-cards – he will see the product page

I am having some trouble with the following rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/(.*)/?$ showPRODUCT.php?id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/?$ showCATEGORY.php?product=$1 [NC,L]

because the first rule “catches” the category URL (http://www.domain.com/toys/) in addition to the product (and vice versa if I switch the order).

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

David

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  1. Editorial Team
    RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/(.*)/?$ showPRODUCT.php?id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/?$ showCATEGORY.php?product=$1 [NC,L]

    Assuming the “^item” at the beginning is supposed to be there…

    What you need is to change the * repeater to a + repeater, that way it won’t match the category. Likewise, the L flag should stop it from continuing with the other rewriterule if it finds the first one:

    RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/(.+)/?$ showPRODUCT.php?id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^item/(toys|clothes)/?$ showCATEGORY.php?product=$1 [NC,L]
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