htaccess rewrite parameter name to "nothing" - php

I used the follow rule to rewrite example.com/user-beavis to example.com/profil.php?user=beavis
RewriteRule ^([^\-]*)user-(.*)$ $1profil.php?user=$2 [QSA]
But I want it to be example.com/beavis so I tried:
RewriteRule ^([^\-]*)(.*)$ $1profil.php?user=$2 [QSA]
but get 500 Internal Server Error
Is it even possible with any rule?


If you want to convert example.com/beavis to example.com/profil.php?user=beavis, use this:
RewriteRule ^(?!profil.php)(.*)$ /profil.php?user=$1 [L] [L]
I used a negative lookahead to protect from eternal loop.


This is the solution:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profil.php?user=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profil.php?user=$1

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What am I doing wrong with this .htaccess?

I have the following .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2&pageLevel3=$3 [L,R=301]
When I access my website using http://www.domain.com/testpage/ it gives me the 404 Not Found error. What am I doing wrong?
PS: currently the index.php files just echo the pageLevel1, pageLevel2 and pageLevel3 values.

Remove the leading slash from Rewrite pattern
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2&pageLevel3=$3 [L,R=301]

First of, I don't know why are you using the 301 redirection at all? If you want to accept all characters in the url you just need to have a catch-all rewrite rule like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?param=$1 [L]
If you want to catch the parameters like you defined, the rewrite rules can be like this:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2&pageLevel3=$3 [L]
UPDATE:
The completed rules in your case (three page levels), with URL slugs which accepts letters and numbers can be like:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?pageLevel1=$1&pageLevel2=$2&pageLevel3=$3 [L]
This way you can access pages like:
www.domain.com/test
www.domain.com/test/another-test
www.domain.com/test/another-test/new-level

htaccess rewrite rules conflict

www.example.com/category/sub_category/Having problem with the rewririte rules in .htaccess file.
my current .htaccess file looks like this.
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ products.php?cat=$1&id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_categories.php?cat=$2&id=$3 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_details.php?cat=$3&id=$4 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ gallery.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
I'm trying create urls like the following.
www.example.com/product_name/1
www.example.com/category/sub_category/21
www.example.com/category/sub_category/product_name/233
www.example.com/gallery/872
www.example.com/gallery/872 is redirecting to www.example.com/category/sub_category/872 instead of gallery.php?id=872
edit:corrected url from www.example.com/gallery/872 to www.example.com/category/sub_category/872.

Your issue is that the first rule matches, the last one can never get applied...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^gallery/([0-9]+)/?$ gallery.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ products.php?cat=$1&id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_categories.php?cat=$2&id=$3 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_details.php?cat=$3&id=$4 [NC,L]
Rule of thumb: first the specific exceptions, then the more general rules.
The NC flag does not make sense if you also specify both, lower and upper case letters in your regex patterns. It is either/or, not and.
(note: I also included the correction #anubhava posted in his answer)

Your last rule will need regex modification since you're matching /gallery/872 and your pattern is only matching 1 or more digits.
RewriteRule ^gallery/([0-9]+)/?$ gallery.php?id=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ products.php?cat=$1&id=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_categories.php?cat=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ product_details.php?cat=$3&id=$4 [QSA,L]
Also you need to recorder your rules like I showed above.

Mod Rewrite and Arabic characters

I currently have the following rules in my .htaccess file that work perfectly for the English site.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1&param2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([^/]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1&param2=$2&param3=$3 [L]
But, on the Arabic website, this throws a "404" error.
Examples that work:
http://www.mysitedomain.xyz/work/website/pages/goals-and-objectives
http://www.mysitedomain.xyz/work/website/solutions/banking
Examples that DO NOT work:
http://www.mysitedomain.xyz/work/website/pages/الاهداف
http://www.mysitedomain.xyz/work/website/solutions/بنوك
Any idea how to fix that?
Thanks

Given your URL layouts, I don't think you really need to be so specific. You probably just want to split on slashes:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1&param2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ rewrite.php?param1=$1&param2=$2&param3=$3 [L]

in place of ([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+) this utilize (.*), for any content

URL Rewriting or .htacess not working

I am trying to rewrite the url like
http://test.com/1234
to
http://test.com/index.php?a=1234
and my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /^[a-zA-Z0-9]/?$ index.php?key=$1 [NC,L]
but nothing is happening it simply shows object not found error, .htaccess file is already in the root directory so help needed
P.S. I am a beginner in rewriting.

Try this rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?key=$1 [NC,L]
You need the brackets to group characters and re-use them as the $1 parameter.
You don't need the /
If you have a pattern like [0-9] you need a * or + if you want to match more than one character.
Btw, if the key parameter only accepts numbers, use:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?key=$1 [NC,L]

try this
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?a=$1 [L,QSA]
^(.*)$ results in passing down the whole request path as one parameter
QSA results in appending any query string to the request
?a=$1 specify how the parameter is passed down

Try this rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?a=$1 [QSA,L]

mod_rewrite: rewrite existing files to friendly links

I went through a bunch of websites and tutorials yet can't find a solution.
Following snippet works and http://example.com/page/pot return a pot.php content
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]*)$ $1.php?page=$1 [L]
I can't get it to work the other way around
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/page$ $1.php?page=$1 [L]

Your current approach will cause infinite looping since Apache re-injects rewritten URI back for further rule processing.
You need to use THE_REQUEST variable for that like this:
RewriteEngine On
# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+page/[^.]+\.php\?page=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ page/%1? [R=302,L]
# internal forward from pretty URL to actual one
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]*)/?$ $1.php?page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

Try to use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/page$ $1.php?page=$1 [L]

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