Question

Im trying to make my site URLS ‘tidy’ and can’t figure out querystrings

example, I want:

services.php?service=3

to be

services/3

I have the appropriate code in my services page to get the item

$loc = explode("/",$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REQUEST_URI"]);
$service = $loc[count($loc)-1]; 

and htaccess is set to do all the redirect work on .php files as well as

<FilesMatch "^services$">
    ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

but "services/3" gets a 404 error.

Rewrite rules being used are:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[^./]+)$   
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d   
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f   
RewriteRule (.*) /$1.php [L]   
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php\ HTTP   
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L] 

Answer 1

Why not use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^services/([0-9]+)(/)?$ services.php?service=$1