Mod_Rewrite Htaccess Internal Redirect Just Not Working

Question

I have tried so many things in the past hour and nothing works. I have a website called example.com I have this code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+).html$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2 [N]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?p=$1

When I go on example/forums/discussion-f3.html it works. When I try /forums/introductions-f2.html, it redirects me to /index.php/?p=forums&i=introductions-f2. Also, http://craftshaft.org/forums/ sends me to http://craftshaft.org/index.php/?p=forums but when I do it without the slash and remove it from the code, it works, but I need the slash at the end so it looks like a folder.

Basically, I'd like to be able to view URLs like this:

• /forums.html (to /index.php?p=forums)
• forums/thread-name.html (to index.php?p=forums&i=thread-name)

Answer 1

Place this code in root .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)(\.html)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)\.html$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2 [L,NC,QSA]