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I am trying to rewrite

http://example.com/category/this-is-my-category

to...

http://example.com/category.php?id=this-is-my-category

My .htaccess file is below:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^category/(d+)/([w-]+)$ /category.php?id=$1 [L]

This gives a 404 error

http://example.com/category.php exists on the server

I have also tried

RewriteRule ^category/(d+)/([w-]+)$ ./category.php?id=$1 [L]

and

RewriteRule ^/category/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /category.php?id=$1

I have read some articles on this and can't see an issue with the code in the .htaccess file.

Right, so your first regex...

^category/(d+)/([w-]+)$

requires a number between category and the last part, eg /category/1234/something-else.

Your second regex...

^/category/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$

has an incorrect leading slash (rewrite rules start at the rewrite-base) and requires only letters and numbers after category, eg /category/thisIsMyCategory.

The URL you're testing has letters and hyphens.

To me, it looks like you want

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^category/([w-]+)$ /category.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

Demo ~ https://htaccess.madewithlove.be?share=8c3de5aa-68f3-5ec0-9c69-23ff2dbe2d6e

Some notes...

• It's rare to ever need RewriteBase, especially if your .htaccess file is in the root directory so I've removed it


• 
  

  I've added the QSA flag so any query parameters are preserved. For example

  
  
  

  /category/this-is-my-category?foo=bar
  

  
  
  

  becomes

  
  
  

  /category.php?id=this-is-my-category&foo=bar