Rookie Url Rewriting 2 - php

Question

I have this rewrite rule in my htaccess script, but whenever i do a var_dump on $_GET it's empty, like the values from the url are not read in PHP.
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^index.php/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?app=$1&page=$2&category=$3 [L]
</ifModule>
Example of url: .../index.php/main/featured/1
How can one fix this problem?
Thank you!

Answer 1

I believe these two conditions:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
are not met as your URL is /index.php/main/featured/1. At least it did not work for me either. Can you either remove index.php part both from RewriteRule and your URL, making .htaccess:
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?app=$1&page=$2&category=$3 [L]
</ifModule>
and navigating to URL /main/featured/1 or if you really need the index.php part, then uncomment/remove these conditions:
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
and continue using /index.php/main/featured/1 URL.