Ubuntu apache htaccess custom url for seo friendly not working - php

Question

I ned to change this url
https://halopredictions.com/blog/index.php?url=german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may
to
https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may
This is my .htaccess that am currently using
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ index.php?url=$1 [NC,L]
I have already enabled mod rewrite
The htaccess is on this path ...\blog\.htaccess
Any help I will highly appreciate

Answer 1

Before proceeding with the answer, if I understand correctly you want to redirect from https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may To https://halopredictions.com/blog/index.php?url=german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may.
Since SEO Urls are used by the visitors, we have to convert them to actual path.
The below RewriteRule will be sufficient to achieve the above condition.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^blog/([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/?$ blog/index.php?url=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Explanation:
^blog/([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/?$ - This part is what you want to rewrite from. Since, your URLs will be like in the pattern https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may, we need to get the url part after blog/.
I have used a regular expression ([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/? to match the url part and it can be referrenced using $1.
Now we have to use $1 in our new url. For that, we have written the second part of RewriteRule where you can assign the referrence.
blog/index.php?url=$1 - Now, as you would assume we are using the $1 reference after index.php?url=, so that it will append it to the URL Query param and should lead to a valid path.
By the way, ^ this is used to indicate the start and $ for the end.