htaccess RewriteRule with parameters to specific location - .htaccess

Question

I have a page which has a link as:
http://www.example.com/listings.php?packageType=luxury-travel
Which I'd like to send to:
http://www.example.com/luxury-travel
And also:
http://www.example.com/listings.php?packageType=luxury-travel&packageTypeSub=remote-luxury-retreats
To go to:
http://www.example.com/luxury-travel/remote-luxury-retreats
I have used:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /listings.php?packageType=$1&packageTypeSub=$2 [L]
Which ends up affecting other pages which I have such as:
http://www.example.com/about-us
I have also tried placing:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Before. Also tried playing with:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^packageType=([^&]+) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} &packageType=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /listings.php?packageType=$1 [L]
Which just give me a 404 error on both links. Anyone have any ideas? Would have thought this would have been a simple one!

Answer 1

In your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^\.*]+)/([^\.*]+)/?$ listings.php?packageType=$1&packageTypeSub=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?([^\.*]+)/?$ listings.php?packageType=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

Try this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+listings\.php\? [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)packageType=([^&]+)&packageTypeSub=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /listings.php?packageType=$1&packageTypeSub=$2 [L]
Note that if only packageType is available, the rules would redirect to http://www.example.com/luxury-travel/ (note the / at the end) to help differentiate it from links like http://www.example.com/about-us.
If that's not an option, then you would have add rules that specifically provide page/link names.

Answer 3

I have edited and removed some of the development code as it wasn't working.
After a lot of headscratching I finally found a solution which works:
# Rewrite specific pages - listings
# Allow packageType
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+listings\.php\? [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)packageType=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !&packageTypeSub=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1/? [R=301,NC,L]
# Allow packageTypeSub
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+listings\.php\? [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)packageType=([^&]+)&packageTypeSub=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=301,NC,L]
# Ignore the images folder allowing images to display
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(upload-images) [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /listings.php?packageType=$1&packageTypeSub=$2 [L]
The main issue was the upload-images folder which contains all the images for the site packages was being blocked. I managed to exclude this folder from the rewrite rules and it now seems to be working. Thanks all for your help. Hope this helps someone else in future.