mod_rewrite not recognizing files - php

Question

My mod_rewrite is working excellent, but it's not recognizing anything after for example /calgary/
So, if I go to /calgary/login.php and it is only seeing the index.php page? It won't recognize the /login.php page?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /city_name
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)/?$ /city_name/index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /([^\./]+)\.php$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/city_name/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([^\./]+)\.php$ /city_name/?$2.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

You need to swap those 2 rules:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /city_name
# This used to be the 2nd rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /([^\./]+)\.php$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/city_name/%1.php -f
# there used to be a "?" here, remove it ----v
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([^\./]+)\.php$ /city_name/$2.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
# this used to be the first rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)/?$ /city_name/index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
The less restrictive rule (the one that matches (.*)/?$) will match /calgary/login.php outright before the second set of rules gets to do its thing, which seems to be rewritten to /city_name/?login.php?page=calgary.
Is that really what you want? There are two ? in the target there. Maybe you only want /city_name/$2.php?page=$1?

Answer 2

Try removing the 'L' from the first rewrite rule, this tells Apache to stop processing further rules if a match is found.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /city_name
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)/?$ /city_name/index.php?page=$1 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /([^\./]+)\.php$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/city_name/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([^\./]+)\.php$ /city_name/?$2.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>