Difficulty with .htaccess pretty URLs

Question

I apologize if this has been asked numerous times, all of the reading I've done I can't seem to figure this out.

I'm building a site where the index page loads a template based on the url "index.php?p=pagename". This is working fine, however in some instances I need to pass an id as well "index.php?p=pagename&id=#". Ideally I would like it to look like... /pagename/id or /pagename/id/...

here's what my hatccess file looks like.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /manage/
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ ?p=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1&id=$2
</IfModule>

Any help would be much appreciated.

possible duplicate of [URL rewriting with PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php) — Frank van Wijk, May 05 '15 at 16:26
Thanks, sorry for the duplication, I guess there's never an explanation of.. if you set it up to handle two parameters, it also works with only one parameter. That's where my confusion may have been happening. — MAtkins, May 05 '15 at 17:13
mod rewrite is enabled. As I mentioned, the first rewrite rule is working perfectly. As I'm building the site, I've come across a need to occasionally pass an id for $_GET.... and it just isn't happening. Unfortunately I have very little understanding of hatches.... — MAtkins, May 05 '15 at 17:28

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-05T18:11:58.043

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Try this :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /manage/
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ /manage/index.php?p=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ /manage/index.php?p=$1&id=$2 [QSA,NC,L]
</IfModule>

edited May 05 '15 at 18:11

answered May 05 '15 at 16:33

Amit Verma

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This isn't working. do I maybe need to change how I'm writing the href for page links? – MAtkins May 05 '15 at 17:20
In which folder is the index.php file? – Amit Verma May 05 '15 at 17:26
You also need to add a base tag to the head of your document so that pages can can use css and other relative links – Amit Verma May 05 '15 at 17:32
There is a config file that defines the base url as well as the base directory included in the index page – MAtkins May 05 '15 at 17:35
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something, this still isn't working. My page links look like: '' which works with my first rewrite rule from my post, it also works without '/manage/', but doesn't work with the rule you've posted. – MAtkins May 05 '15 at 17:41
Now the variables have changed in url, there are 2 variables now , wait I will update my answer again in a short while. – Amit Verma May 05 '15 at 17:46
so with your update, using the link '/manage/news' works to give me the news page, but '/manage/edit-news/5' does not. – MAtkins May 05 '15 at 17:55
A hypen - was missing in the regex pattern, i have fixed it. – Amit Verma May 05 '15 at 18:13

Difficulty with .htaccess pretty URLs

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