.htaccess RewriteRule for category/page in custom CMS - php

Question

I have a working RewriteRule that rewrites any page to the literal url:
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]
The problem is I want to add page=$1&category=$2 and convert it to...obviously... /category/page
I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?page=$1&category=$2 [QSA,L]
I should note that I would still like to be able to access pages without categories - ie /login or /about that should go to index.php?page=about for instance

Answer 1

Your solution will be as below.
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_\-]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_\-]+)$ index.php?page=$1&category=$2 [NC,L]
Input url : http://www.test.com/my-cat/my-page
and it will be treated as : http://www.test.com/index.php?page=my-cat&category=my-page

Answer 2

Try with below, we are instructing apache to don't look for directory or file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?page=$1&category=$2 [QSA,L]

Answer 3

try this
#https://www.example.com/index.php?category=9&page=CBSE `#https://www.example.com/category/page/CBSE`
Method One:
#use this code for generate new url
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2 [NC,L]
Method Two :
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2
Note :Hit Your Url index.php?category=$1&page=$2 to convert $i & $2 Create Dynamic Url Your Id Bases

Answer 4

This will work for you.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /index.php?category=$1&page=$2 [L]
If you want to generate rewrite urls easily, there are a lot online rewrite url generators.

Answer 5

Thanks for all the contributions...
Because I needed to cater for both /page and /category/page...I ended up doing this:
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_\-][^/]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [N]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_\-]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_\-]+)$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2 [L]
But that was only half the solution as I needed to modify my PHP to check whether category is set or not and to send a 404 if it doesn't match. Otherwise /invalid_category/valid_pagewould still work.
The ideas above all pushed me in the right direction, thanks.