Apache 2 mod_rewrite problem

Question

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^browse/videos/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) /videos.php?sortby=$1&filter=$2&page=$3&title=$4
RewriteRule ^videos/(.*)/(.*) /playvideo.php?videoid=$1&title=$2
</IfModule>

url www.example.com/browse/videos/z/0/1/LastAdded goes to videos.php

but url www.exaple.com/videos/10/play.html also goes to videos.php not to playvideo.php

Why?

Answer 1

Not sure why that is hapenning to you but anyway you should be using something like this.

RewriteRule ^browse/videos/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+) /videos.php?sortby=$1&filter=$2&page=$3&title=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/(.+)/(.+) /playvideo.php?videoid=$1&title=$2 [L]

Answer 2

This could be caused by MultiViews. Try to disable it with:

Options -MultiViews

Furthermore, you should use more specific pattern than .*, for example [^/]+:

RewriteRule ^browse/videos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /videos.php?sortby=$1&filter=$2&page=$3&title=$4
RewriteRule ^videos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /playvideo.php?videoid=$1&title=$2

Answer 3

It works for me. To track down why it doesn't work for you, you should enable mod_rewrite logging:

RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log

Then you should try to understand what's written there. And if you don't understand it, post it here and we will try to explain it.