Writing clean urls with .htaccess

Question

Update - Alright thanks everyone for your tests, it really helped. The code is good. My problem was not having absolute "/" links. (Due to moving from public_html folder).

Only 2 concerns i have now.

1.) Replace "^achilles" with "^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)" and thumbnails wont appear (parameter data is not being carried???)

2.) How can I make http://funkygames.co/games/achilles/achilles/1 become even shorter like http://funkygames.co/games/achilles Or are the parameters absolutely mandatory.

# Turn Rewrite Engine On
RewriteEngine on     

# Set the base to /games/ so we need not include it in the rules
RewriteBase /games/

#Rewrite for achilles.php?games_path=xxxxxxxxxx.yyy&category_id=zzz
RewriteRule ^achilles/(.*)/([0-9]+) $1.php?games_path=$1.swf&category_id=$2 [NC,L]

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Where i learned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pbAV6AU99I

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SOLVED! Thanks to you guys. Solution:

# Turn Rewrite Engine On
RewriteEngine on     

# Set the base to /games/ so we need not include it in the rules
RewriteBase /games/

#Rewrite for achilles.php?games_path=xxxxxxxxxx.yyy&category_id=zzz
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+) $1.php?games_path=$1.swf&category_id=$2 [NC,L]

http://funkygames.co/games/achilles/1

Answer 1

SOLVED! Thanks to you guys. Solution:

# Turn Rewrite Engine On
RewriteEngine on     

# Set the base to /games/ so we need not include it in the rules
RewriteBase /games/

#Rewrite for achilles.php?games_path=xxxxxxxxxx.yyy&category_id=zzz
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+) $1.php?games_path=$1.swf&category_id=$2 [NC,L]

http://funkygames.co/games/achilles/1

If your website is appearing but its not showing pictures or dynamic database content. Then you must make sure you use absolute links

"/this-is-absolute"(will work from any folder) "this-relative"(will only work from public_html)

Answer 2

I have: http://funkygames.co/games/achilles.php?games_path=achilles.swf&category_id=1

I want: http://funkygames.co/games/achilles/achilles/1 or even better: funkygames.co/games/achilles/1 (if that's possible)

Try this:

RewriteRule ^games/achilles/(.*)/([0-9]+)$ /games/achilles.php?games_path=$1.swf&category_id=$2 [NC,L]

And if the game name needs to be case sensitive, remove the NC from [NC,L].