Htaccess RewriteRule override issue

[tmrd]

Hi!

I’ve created a RewriteRule like below.

RewriteRule ^book/(\w+)/? contentpages/book/book.php?thing_id=$1 [NC,L]

I also need to create a clean tag url, but when I try the rule below, it doesn’t work because of the previous rule (probably), how can I fix this issue?

RewriteRule ^book/tag/(\w+)/? contentpages/book/tag.php?tag_value=$1 [NC,L]**

[Jeff_Mott]

Both rules should use an end anchor.

^book/(\w+)/?$

[tmrd]

It worked, thank you!

[tmrd]

I have a new issue that I couldn’t solve. I’m trying to pass two parameters, how can I do it?

My current rules (separate)

RewriteRule ^book/(\w+)/?$ contentpages/book/book.php?thing_id=$1 [NC,L] // $_GET['thing_id'] works
RewriteRule ^book/tag/(\w+)/?$ contentpages/book/tag.php?tag_value=$1 [NC,L] // $_GET['tag_value'] works

But I want two of them in one url, like so : book/6/tag/great

I created the rule below, but it doesn’t work when I use book url, book4 or some random name like book5 works.

RewriteRule ^book4/(\w+)/tag/(\w+)/?$ contentpages/book/tag.php?tag_value=$1&thing_id=$2

I want to be able to get both tag and thing_id using a single rule and echo them in my tag.php file using $_GET requests.

EDIT : Okay, I solved it. Another rule was overriding this one. I’m leaving the message as it is since it may help other people in the future.

[dklynn]

tmrd,

BOTH RewriteRules should NOT have the optional trailing slash as that would suggest to the server that the visitor is requesting a directory. Worse, relative links don’t know which directory level they’re supposed to retrieve internally linked files from. Test your code using the trailing / as well as without and you’ll see the problem (missing support files).

Regards,

DK