.htaccess rewrite with multiple parameters

Question

I had a rule in my .htaccess that makes URLs for articles more friendly looking for the purposes of SEO and the like.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(news-and-views)/(.+).php /$1/article.php?title=$2 [L]

Which converted this URL:

/news-and-views/going-for-brokering.php

To this within the application itself:

/news-and-views/article.php?title=going-for-brokering

Now I need a URL with an ID before the title like this:

/news-and-views/123456789/going-for-brokering.php

So I tried the following rule:

RewriteRule ^(news-and-views)/(.+)/(.+).php /$1/article.php?Id=$2&title=$3 [L]

However, this isn't working, am I misunderstanding the use of the brackets as I thought everything between them was acknowledged as a variable on the right-hand side?

I'm thinking it could even be that the less specific rule is above the more specific rule.

.htaccess rules never make your URLs "friendly looking" – they act the other way around and resolve "speaking" URLs into a machine readable counterpart. — feeela
– feeela, Commented Aug 1, 2018 at 14:13

BenM · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-01 14:14:10Z

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You need to be careful about the order of the rules, since your first rule will also match /news-and-views/123456789/going-for-brokering.php. Change your rules as follows:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(news-and-views)/([^/]+).php /$1/article.php?title=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(news-and-views)/([0-9]+)/([^/]+).php /$1/article.php?Id=$2&title=$3 [L]

answered Aug 1, 2018 at 14:14

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feeela Over a year ago

…or reverse the order of the original rules, as stated in your text (“be careful about the order of the rules”).

BenM Over a year ago

Yes, but generally it's better to write more specific rules than just rely on the L flag.

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