htaccess url rewriting 2 get values

Question

I am using PHP 7.2 URL Rewrite Rules. i am making 2 links first link is "category.php?inventory_id=" and second links "show-subcategories.php?cat_id" but the result is always the first link is working missing code, please help ...

I have need URL

www.example.com/nokia-1 // category url
www.example.com/nokia/nokia-n72-3 // subcategory url
www.example.com/nokia/nokia-n72/product-1 // child subcategory url

Current URL

https://www.example.com/show-subcategories.php?cat_id=1 //category url
https://www.example.com/show-childcategories.php?sub_cat_id=1 // subcategory url
https://www.example.com/search-result.php?p_id=1 // child subcategory url

The htaccess code here...

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (\d+)$ category.php?inventory_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule category/(\d+)$ show-subcategories.php?cat_id=$1 [L]//error part rule is not working

Answer 1

The reason that it isn't working is that (\d+)$ matches any URL that ends in digits. All of your URLs end in digits.

You have a couple other potential problems with your rewrite rules as well.

• I'm not sure why you would want RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 which means that the rewrite rule will only work for HTTP but not for HTTPS. In most cases you would want to remove that condition for friendly URL rewrites.
• Your %{REQUEST_FILENAME} conditions only apply to one of your two rules. I'd think you'd want the same checks to make sure it isn't a file, to apply to each of your rewrite rules. In general RewriteCond only applies to the very next rule. I'd recommend inverting those rules and performing a no-op to stop processing any more rewrite rules if a file or directory exists.

I'd recommend the following rewrite rules. They use [^\/]+ which means "a bunch of characters with no slashes". I've also added ^ to the start of the the rewrite rules which means "starts with".

RewriteEngine On 

# Stop processing rewrites if file or directory exists
# See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28768719/no-op-apache-mod-rewrite-rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^[^\/]+-(\d+)$ category.php?inventory_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[^\/]+\/[^\/]+-(\d+)$ show-childcategories.php?sub_cat_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[^\/]+\/[^\/]+\/[^\/]+-(\d+)$ search-result.php?p_id=$1 [L]

I'd also caution against using pages that look like search results for SEO. I'm not sure exactly what you search-result.php returns, but if it shows search results that look similar to Google's, Google doesn't want them in their search results. It is bad for user experience and having pages that look like Google search results indexed could get your entire site penalized. See Matt Cutts - Search results in search results.

Answer 2

Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess

# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /search-result.php?p_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^category/product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /show-subcategories.php?cat_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /show-childcategories.php?sub_cat_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

https://www.example.com/search-result.php?p_id=1 to https://www.example.com/product-list-nokia-1

RewriteRule ^product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /search-result.php?p_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

https://www.example.com/show-subcategories.php?cat_id=1 to https://www.example.com/category/product-list-nokia-n72-3

RewriteRule ^category/product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /show-subcategories.php?cat_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

https://www.example.com/show-childcategories.php?sub_cat_id=1 to https://www.example.com/category/subcategory/product-list-nokia-n72-3

RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/product-list-nokia-([0-9]+)/?$ /show-childcategories.php?sub_cat_id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]