Mod Rewrite not working on my addon domain

Question

I have a wordpress website on my main domain

For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I just created an addon domain and wanted to use new rules for it

I created a .htaccess file and put it inside the addon folder eg /newaddon

In the .htaccess file i have:

Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^readjob/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ readjob.php?id=$1&amp;cat=$2&amp;title=$3
</IfModule>

The url stucture i have is this:

http://www.website.com/readjob/3/jobs/web-designers-potech-integrated-services/

But it keeps telling me link is broken

I dont know what to do, pls i need assistance

(pls i just learnt mod rewriting today, so clarity will be highly appreciated)

Thanks

Answer 1

This is not HTML where the & should be represented with a character reference (except if used as a reference open delimiter). So:

RewriteRule ^readjob/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ readjob.php?id=$1&cat=$2&title=$3

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

RewriteRule ^readjob/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ readjob.php?id=$1&cat=$2&title=$3

Answer 2

I believe this is what your looking for:

Options -Multiviews

I use this in my root directory of domains hosted under my main domain and in my case they happen to be two levels deep.

i.e.

Options +FollowSymlinks

Options -Multiviews

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

to clarify you add Options -Multiviews to the addon websites htaccess file. :D