Multiple rewrite rules in htaccess - .htaccess

I have an .htaccess file that rewrites urls for SEO purposes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /display.php?page=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/([^/\.]+)/?$ search.php?what=$1&where=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
Now the first rewrite rule works fine. (www.domain.com/user goes to display.php?page=user)
but the second one should work like (www.domain.com/search/something/else must go to search.php?what=something&where=else
What am I doing wrong here?

Your second rule is incorrect for what you are looking for. You are requesting the result of two captures, but are only making one capture.
Try this instead:
RewriteRule ^search/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ search.php?what=$1&where=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
Edit: You'll also need to switch your rules around. Your first rule captures everything, and would therefore discard the second.
So, swap them around, and use the L flag, as suggested already.

You are using the [L] flag, which causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set.
Try removing the L flag from the first Rewrite Rule, like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /display.php?page=$1 [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/([^/\.]+)/?$ search.php?what=$1&where=$2 [L,NC,QSA]

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Optimize Long URLs with .htaccess

I have theses URLs
http://www.website.com/?goto=plaforms
http://www.website.com/?goto=offers&platform=dates
http://www.website.com/?goto=profile&member=1
http://www.website.com/?goto=product&offer=2
I want to change them using .htaccess to be like this:
http://www.website.com/plaforms
http://www.website.com/offers/dates
http://www.website.com/profile/1
http://www.website.com/product/2
I've tried this but not working
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?goto=$1
Honestly I have no clue how to do it.
UPDATE:
I have an index.php in which I call all pages
index.php
$page = $_GET['goto'];
$url = $page.'.php';
if(file_exists($url)):
include($url);
else:
header('location:'?goto=home');
endif;
The 1st param ?goto= calls for pages and the second param call data from database
You could write rewrite rules like these:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#The rules
RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)?$ /?goto=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^offers\/dates$ /?goto=offers&platform=dates [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^profile\/(\d+)$ /?goto=profile&member=$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^product\/(\d+)$ /?goto=product&offer=$1 [R=301,L]
The problem is some of the parameter values can not be derived from your fancy URLs. Therefore, you have to spell them out fully (like /offers/dates) or partially like /profile/x and /product/x). The only really generic rule is the first one that rewrites anything /xxx to goto=xxx. So, depending on y our URL space you may have to write a lot of rules.

Rewrite URL with .htaccess for multiple parameters

This question might be a duplicate. But I did not find any solution worked for me.
I want to rewrite URL, where I have one and two level parameters. first parameter is p and second is sp
www.domain.com/home should point to www.domain.com/index.php?p=home
and
www.domain.com/projects/99 should point to www.domain.com/index.php?p=projects&sp=99
How do I do in .htaccess?
Currently My htaccess is as followes,
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ index.php?p=$1&sp=$2 [L]
The problem with this htaccess is that it correctly points one level url. ie., www.domain.com/home. But not the two level url. ie. www.domain.com/projects/99
You have to treat the rules separately. All Conditions preceding rules only apply to a single, immediately following rule. You tried to 'chain' two rules. The second rule never could have matched, since the first one was a catch-all that changed the syntax. Apart from that you have to make sure that the first rule does not catch unwanted requests. Also think about whether you want to use the * or the + operator in the patterns. I suggest you use the + operator, so that you have a clear error message when empty values are requested for a 'page' or a 'subpage'.
So this might come closer to what you are looking for:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?p=$1&sp=$2 [L]

Rewrite Rule Loop. How to stop applying rules

I have an .htaccess file redirecting blog post urls like /blog/2012/11/30/this-post to /blog/post.php?id=this-post. Works fine until I apply a second rule below it that is also a match. This rule is set to take a path formatted url like /this/is/a/pageid and redirect to /page.php?id=pageid. It doesn't care how long the path is, it just uses the last directory in the path as the id. Unfortunately, this rule matches everything and I'm not sure how to stop the redirect after the first match. Here is my .htacess
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ /blog/post.php?id=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ /page.php?id=$1 [L]
Thanks in advance for the help.
You can add an optional query parameter after you redirect the first time and combine that with a simple rewrite condition on the query string to check if that parameter exists or no, try this :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ /blog/post.php?id=$4 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(.*&)?r=0(&.*)?$
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ /page.php?id=$1&r=0 [L]

htaccess does not work rewrite rule

I've been struggling with my .htaccess file for weeks now, I changed it many times but it just won't work.
I have this in my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^/([^./]+)\.html$ category.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^/([^./]+)\.html$ tag.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^/([^./]+)\.html$ play.php?id=$1
but it does not work.
Are you sure that mod_rewrite is turned on in Apache? Do you have access to httpd.conf? It would be better to do redirects there instead of with a .htaccess file.
Your conditions are only being applied to the first rule. Each set of RewriteCond's only get applied to the immediately following RewriteRule. So the conditions only get applied to RewriteRule ^/([^./]+)\.html$ category.php?id=$1 and the last 2 rules have no conditions at all.
Your conditions is to rewrite something that exists to something else, which will cause a rewrite loop. You probably wanted:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Your 2nd and 3rd rules will never be applied because if someone requests /some-page.html the first rule's regex will match it and rewrite the URI to /category.php?id=some-page, then the next to rules will never match because the first rule already rewrote the URI to category.php.
Your regular expressions match a leading slash, URI's being applied in rewrite rules that are inside an htaccess file has the leading slash stripped out, so you want this instead:
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)\.html$ category.php?id=$1
1, 2 and 4 is easy. 3, not so much. You're going to have to figure out a unique way to represent an html page as a category, tag, or play. You can't have all 3 look identical, there's no way to tell which one you want. Take:
/something.html
Is that supposed to be a category? A tag? or a Play? Who knows, your rewrite rules surely don't. But if you preface each with a keyword, then you can differentiate:
/category/something.html
/tag/something.html
/play/something.html
And your rules would look like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^category/([^./]+)\.html$ category.php?id=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^tag/([^./]+)\.html$ tag.php?id=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^play/([^./]+)\.html$ play.php?id=$1

mod rewrite - allow full stops

I need a rewrite rule that allows full stops. How can I allow for this? What I want is for
shop/domain/www.test.com to become shop/domain/controller.php?param1=www.test.com
The original rule I have is below:
RewriteRule ^shop/domain/([^/.]+)/?$ shop/stock/controller.php?param1=$1 [NC]
This works but only if I remove the full stop.
I have also tried the following:
RewriteRule ^shop/domain/([^/]+)/?$ shop/domain/controller.php?param1=$1 [NC]
This allows the full stop but then has controller.php is the parameter when it should be www.test.com.
If all domains begin with "www.", you could do this
RewriteRule ^shop/domain/www\.([^/]+)/?$ shop/domain/controller.php?param1=$1 [NC,L]
The problem with your rule is, that it also matches controller.php as if it were a domain. You can add the following two rewrite conditions to prevent this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^shop/domain/([^/]+)/?$ shop/domain/controller.php?param1=$1 [NC,L]
!-d means not an existing directory, !-f means not an exisiting file (e.g. controller.php).

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