Url Rewrite - Add Query String Too 999 - .htaccess

Question

DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$
RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^tags tags.php [L,NC]
</IfModule>
i want to add new page .but write page not found. why? please help me.
RewriteRule ^tags tags.php [L,NC] // i want this www.example.com/tags open tags.php ?

Answer 1

You need to reorder your htaccess rules like this :
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$
RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php [L,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
The problem is that, your rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Rewrites any request (not a true file/dir) to index.php. since /tags is not an existent file on your directory, so a request for http://example.com/tags was being rewritten to /index.php and the last rule(s) never executed.