Issues with multiple rewrite rules

[umpljazz]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting multiple rewrite rules to work as I planned for a recipe site I'm writing.

Basicially I have 2 absolute pages...

domain.com/category.php?id=chicken
domain.com/recipe.php?id=a-chicken-recipe

The respective friendly URL's I wish to use are along the lines of...

domain.com/chicken
domain.com/chicken/a-chicken-recipe/

Currently my rewrite code is as follows...

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RewriteEngine on

###add trailing slashes to http requests###
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /category.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ /recipe.php?id=$2

But I think what is happening here is the first rule is catching both instances?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[umpljazz]

Ok I have had another play around and found that the following seems to work...

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RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ /recipe.php?id=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-]*)/$ /category.php?id=$1


I believe its because the previous one allowed for addional '/' in the URL (.*). The solution above isn't ideal however as it'll only allow for alphanumeric and '-' characters.

Anyone have any neater solutions?

[richardk]

[^/] means anything but a /.

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$       /category.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /recipe.php?id=$1   [QSA,L]