hide (remove) folder names in URL rewrite Rules Not working - php

Question

I want to make clean URLs removing folder names with htaccess and I have multiple folders (food, health,beauty .....) rewrite rules not working
site.com/food/one.php
TO
site.com/one.php
Rule for food folder
RewriteEngine On
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /food/$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Rule for health folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /health/$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Rule for beauty folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /buety/$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>
only one Rule works fine ( top rule only... whatever it may be ) rest of the rules not
working, getting internal server error 500
Please Help me out

Answer 1

Assuming all your rule blocks are one after the other in the root .htaccess file.
rest of the rules not working, getting internal server error 500
Because you are unconditionally rewriting to the /food/ subdirectory (because this rule is first) regardless of whether the target file exists or not. If it doesn't exist it will create a rewrite loop, which results in a 500 Internal Server Error response.
The remaining rules are only processed if the request already maps to a file (or directory), but then the preceding RewriteCond directives prevent the rule from doing anything (since it has already been established that the request maps to a file or directory).
If there is no discernable difference in the URL then you need to check that the target file exists before rewriting the request.
You can do this, but with the obvious caveat that you can't have the same filename in more than one subdirectory (the first will always "win"). We also need to make some assumptions...
You are rewriting requests for physical .php files only (as per your example).
.php is present in the URL (as per your example).
Try the following instead:
RewriteEngine On
# If the request is already for one of the subdirectories then stop here
RewriteRule ^(food|health|beauty)($|/) - [L]
# If the request is for anything other than a ".php" file then stop here
RewriteRule !\.php$ - [L]
# If the request already maps to a file (or directory) then stop here
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# Rewrite to "/food" if the target file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/food/$0 -f
RewriteRule .+ food/$0 [L]
# Rewrite to "/health" if the target file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/health/$0 -f
RewriteRule .+ health/$0 [L]
# Rewrite to "/beauty" if the target file exists
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/beauty/$0 -f
RewriteRule .+ beauty/$0 [L]
There is no need for the <IfModule> wrappers or the RewriteBase directive(s).
Although it does seem a bit odd that you would want to remove these subdirectories from the URL, as they look like "keywords" that would be better left in the URL?