htaccess rule conflict?

Question

In my .htaccess file I have the following rule defined.

RewriteRule t/([^.]+)/$ /video/tag.php?tag=$1 [QSA]

This rule is working fine for tag pages. When I am accessing URL as http://example.com/video/t/funny/ then its displaying all the result with tag funny.

But When I am accessing a URL http://example.com/video/script/common/video.php Then its displaying the TAG page with search tag results for tag common. I think there is some confliction between the URL and .htaccess rule.

Its taking /t/common/ and applying htaccess rule on this. How to solve this issue??

Answer 1

Your rewrite rule is matching the string in question. You want to change it to be like this:

RewriteRule ^/video/t/([^.]+)/$ /video/tag.php?tag=$1 [QSA]

Basically, what is happening is that since you didn't specify the START of your rule, it was matching the end of "script" in your url and taking it away from there.

If you want a less specific string, try this one:

RewriteRule /t/([^.]+)/$ /video/tag.php?tag=$1 [QSA]