Using several rewrite rules .htaccess

.htaccessrewrite

I have a website wich is based on a searchpage, which shows a list, and next is a detail page of the items.

if visitors use rootdomain.com/searchterm, should be redirected to rootdomain.com/index.php?keyword=searchterm.

I had that working now for the details rootdomain.com/detail/productname, should be redirected to rootdomain.com/detail.php?name=productname

and here I fail…

I keep getting redirected to index.php with my $1 as 'detail/productname'

this is my .htacces so far:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/detail/(.*)$  detail.php?name=$1 [L,QSA] -> L here doesn't work either. 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?keyword=$1 [L,QSA]

Update

Ok, so I am very close now

Problem was that the rewrite condition only is valid for the next rule so I have to repeat that apparantly, I also added ignore detail.php in the first condition, because my redirect on detail got redirected again to index. now for some reason my condition for -f doesn't seem to work on detail/ all my css and images are not working. what is best way to exclude them

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|detail\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^detail/(.*)$  detail.php?name=$1 [L,QSA] 

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|detail\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?keyword=$1 [L,QSA]

Update 2

So I got it to work.. But I guess this is not the shortest way to do it. So if anyone is interested feel free to make this shorter.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|detail\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^detail/(images|css|js)/(.*)$  $1/$2 [L,QSA] 

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|detail\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^detail/(.*)$  detail.php?name=$1 [L,QSA] 

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|detail\.php|resources|robots\.txt|\.png)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?keyword=$1 [L,QSA]

Best Answer

You need to add the L ('last') flag to the first RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^/detail/(.*)$  detail.php?name=$2 [L,QSA]

According to the documentation, this flag will:

Stop the rewriting process here and don't apply any more rewrite rules. This corresponds to the Perl last command or the break command in C. Use this flag to prevent the currently rewritten URL from being rewritten further by following rules.

Without it, Apache continues to apply the second rewrite rule after matching the first. Because the second rule affects everything, it overrides the first one. (Another solution would be to write your patterns so that no two URLs match the same pattern, for example by changing the second pattern to ^[^/](.*)$.)

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URL rewrite with multiple parameters using .htaccess

Here you go: (note that this strips the trailing "/" for pn variables)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?p=/category/$1&pn=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^category/feed(.*) index.php?p=/category/&f=feed$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tags/(.*)/([0-9]+)/ index.php?p=$1&pn=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)/([0-9]+)/ index.php?p=search&q=$1&pn=$2 [L]

... and a PHP file to simplify testing:

<html><head><title>Testing</title></head><body><pre><?php

var_dump($_GET);

echo "\r\n";

var_dump($_SERVER);

?></pre></body></html>

Update: If you plan to have variable category names and you cannot guarantee that the / character will work as a separator, you should consider handling URI parsing within your application itself.

Example rewrite directives:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.php [L,QSA]

Example PHP file:

<?php

  $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  $uri_array = explode( "/", $uri );

  switch ( $uri_array[0] ) {
    case '':
      /* serve index page */
    break;
    case 'feed':
      switch ( $uri_array[1] ) {
          case 'atom':
              /* serve atom feed */
          break;
          case 'rss':
              /* serve RSS feed */
          break;
          default:
              /* default feed behavior */
          break;
      }
    break;
    case 'tags':
        $tags = ($uri_array[1]) ? $uri_array[1] : '';
        $page_number = ($uri_array[2]) ? $uri_array[2] : 1;
        /* tag display behavior */
    break;
    default:
        $category = ($uri_array[1]) ? $uri_array[1] : '';
        $page_number = ($uri_array[2]) ? $uri_array[2] : 1;
        /* category lookup behavior + return 404 if category not found */
    break;
  }
?>

Nginx rewrite, from htaccess-files

First, you don't need the location ~* ^/(css|img|js|flv|swf|download)/(.+)$ block, because it doesn't change anything. Also, in general, root directory inside location blocks isn't what you usually want, alias is the thing you most likely want.

But to the actual problem, try adding these location blocks:

location /v1/documentation/ {
    rewrite ^/v1/documentation/(.+)$ /v1/public/documentation/$1 last;
}

location /v1/examples/ {
    rewrite ^/v1/examples/(.+)$ /v1/public/examples/$1 last;
}

An optional optimization for your @rewrite block

location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^ /v1/public/index.php?_url=$uri break;
}

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URL rewrite with multiple parameters using .htaccess

Nginx rewrite, from htaccess-files

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