Rewrite rule for friendly URLs to index.php is not working from htaccess

Question

Trying to get SEO Friendly URLs to work for my website using the following htaccess:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^explore/(.*)$ index.php?page=explore&type=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1

E.g. it should load /index.php?page=test for /test/ and /index.php?page=explore&type=1 for /explore/1.

However it's not working, does anyone know how I could get this to work?

Answer 1

1. You have RewriteEngine On missing
2. RewriteCond are only applicable to next immediate RewriteRule

Try this code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^explore/(.*)$ index.php?page=explore&type=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]