Rewrite rule doesn't work

[BenWeston]

Hi all

 

I'm trying to get my .htaccess file to internally redirect from, say:

 

mysite.com/salon/the-name-of-someone/treatments

 

to...

 

mysite.com/salon/treatments.php?salon=the-name-of-someone

 

I'm trying the following, but it won't work:

RewriteRule salon/([a-z0-9\-]+)/treatments$ /salon-stub/index.php?salon=$1 [L]

I think the following rule which redirects mysite.com/salon/the-name-of-someone to mysite.com/salon/index.php?salon=the-name-of-someone (successfully), might be causing the problem:

RewriteRule salon/([a-z0-9\-]+)$ /salon-stub/index.php?salon=$1 [L]

[requinix]

Did you notice that both of those RewriteRules are trying to redirect to the same place? I thought you wanted the first to go to treatments.php and not index.php...

[BenWeston]

Sorry, I mistyped the first one, it should be:

RewriteRule salon/([a-z0-9\-]+)/treatments$ /salon-stub/treatments.php?salon=$1 [L]

(which doesn't work)

[requinix]

Looks right so far. Can you post your entire .htaccess as-is? Maybe there's a conflict between rules.

 

And when you say "doesn't work", what does that mean? What actually happens?

[BenWeston]

Thanks for the help so far, requinix! Here's the complete .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
# If it's not a directory...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# ...and it has a trailing slash then redirect to URL without slash
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Rewrite rules for profiles and username mapping
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)$ /user/index.php?prof=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)/treatments$ /user/treatments.php?prof=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)/reviews$ /user/reviews.php?prof=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)/photos$ /user/photos.php?prof=$1 [L]

# Rewrite rules for salons
RewriteRule salon/([a-z0-9\-]+)$ /salon-stub/index.php?salon=$1 [L]
RewriteRule salon/([a-z0-9\-]+)/treatments$ /salon-stub/treatments.php?salon=$1 [L]

The last two lines are the ones I'm concerned with but I understand something else may be causing these to be ineffective.

 

Essentially, I want exactly the same redirection for 'salons' as I have for 'profiles and username mapping' (that already works), except the salons are under the /salons/ directory, and usernames and profiles are under root.

[requinix]

And what did you say happens when you try to go to the URL that isn't working?

 

Also, try adding an [R] to all of those rules to make the redirect happen externally - so you can see where you're being redirected.