Mod_Rewrite: Rewrite Rules confilicting with each other

Question

I want to redirect the home page which is mydomain.com to mydomain.com/index.php?cat=home

here is my htacess file rules:

RewriteRule index.php  index.php?cat=home [L]
RewriteRule (.*)-live-streaming-online.html  index.php?cat=$1 [L]

when both are active every page in my site whatever the cat is redirected to index.php?cat=home

what is wrong with this htacess?

Answer 1

Have your rules like this in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.+?)-live-streaming-online\.html$ /index.php?cat=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(index\.php)?[\s/?] [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^ /index.php?cat=home [L]

Key is to use %{THE_REQUEST} which represents original request received by Apache. Other using URI patten from RewriteRule can change based on your other rule.