.htaccess and rewriting in subfolders?

[MikeSwede]

I have this layout:
http://www.domain.com/search/
In the search folder I have a page, widget_sale.php
this widget_sale.php page can have 2 or 3 parameters, catid, widget and start, so the URL can look like this:
http://www.domain.com/search/widget_sal ... k&start=25. Catid and start will always be numbers but widget can change.
What I want is the URL to look like this:
http://www.domain.com/search/2/clocks.html and if there is a start then I want it to look like this:
http://www.domain.com/search/2/clocks/25.html

I have tried tons of suggestions but I get Page not found

[richardk]

In a .htaccess file in /

Code: Select all

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^search/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$ /search/widget_sale.php?catid=$1&widget=$2&start=$3 [QSA,L]

Or you can remove the first "search/" and put it in /search.