Question

quick question for those who know a little more about mod-rewrite than i do:

I have some rules written in sequence like so:

RewriteRule ^(en|fr) index.php?page=home&lang=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(en|fr)/home index.php?page=home&lang=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(en|fr)/terms index.php?page=terms&lang=$1 [L]

however the first one seems to be over-riding the rest.

I’ve tried taking off the [L] but this doesnt do what I expected and it will never show the “terms” page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you want http://www.example.com/en or http://www.example.com/fr/ (with or without trailing slash) to redirect to the first item, change the first rule to be:

RewriteRule ^(en|fr)/?$ index.php?page=home&lang=$1 [L]

The /? matches whether or not there’s a trailing slash and the $ means “match the end of the URL” (don’t match if the URL continues).