htaccess RewriteRules Colliding

[leblanc]

Hello. Having a real brain teaser here. Everything works fine like it should until I get to mysite.com/index.php?page=XXX&parent_url=XXX&child_url=XXX Then I get this error

 

Warning: include(browse/12-oclock-bars/cbr-600-f4i.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bray/public_html/index.php on line 167

 

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'browse/12-oclock-bars/cbr-600-f4i.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/bray/public_html/index.php on line 167

 

But the first two lines are working fine. Why would the 3rd line not work for my site. But if I comment out the first two lines, than the third line works.... I'm so confused.

 

Here is my HTACCESS file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index.php?
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2&child_url=$3 [L,NC]

[wildteen88]

Put your rules in reverse order.

[leblanc]

wildteen88,

 

Errr, I feel stupid. I feel like I tried that and it didn't work, but it is working now.

Thank you so much for your advice.

 

While where on topic, is it better to place the (.*), or the ([^/\.]+).... whats the difference?

[wildteen88]

I'm not a regex expert but I believe (.*) is greedy. Whereas ([^/\.]+) is lazy. I maybe wrong on the latter.

 

Whenever I use regex I prefer to use character classes eg I use /([a-z])+/ if I'm only searching for letters in a segment of the url, or /([a-z0-9])+/ if a segment of the url can contain letters and numbers etc.

[leblanc]

Great, Now it won't work again with another problem.

 

Here, Line 3 won't work, but all the others do, If I change its position up or down, the others stop working.

 

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2&child_url=$3&product=$4 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2&child_url=$3 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2&product=$3 [L,NC]          <---------------

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&parent_url=$2 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]

[leblanc]

Solved at the simplest method

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index.php?

RewriteRule ^product/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=product&parent_url=$1&child_url=$2&product=$3 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^product/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=product&parent_url=$1&product=$2 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^browse/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=browse&parent_url=$1&child_url=$2 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^browse/(.*)/$ /index.php?page=browse&parent_url=$1 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]

 

Had to give them all identifiers  <-- Thanks to clmarquart and wildteen for all the help.