htaccess redirect error to a subdirectory

Question

Trying to redirect this always works:

RewriteRule ^user/(.*) view_channel.php?user=$1 [nc]

The problem, trying to redirect the statement below alone works but when combined with the above statement it doesn't work (the result was a blank page):

RewriteRule ^user/videos/(.*) user_videos.php?user=$1 [nc]

More details about .htaccess:

Options All -Indexes
FileETag MTime Size
Options +FollowSymlinks  -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
<FilesMatch "\.(db|inc|tmpl|h|ihtml|sql|ini|configuration|config|class|bin|spd|theme|module|cfg|cpl|tmp|log|err|inc.php|class.php)$">
order allow,deny
satisfy all
</FilesMatch>

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The rules are not mutually incompatible. Nor are they final. Change them like this:

RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+) view_channel.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^user/videos/([^/]+) user_videos.php?user=$1 [NC,L]

[^/]+ matches one or more character that is not a / . This ensures that the first rule cannot match the second pattern, which it did with the .* , as that matches any characters, including / of course.

Answer 2

It is because your regex ^user/(.*) also matches a URI like /user/videos/something .

Have your rules like this:

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteRule ^user/videos/([^/]+)/?$ user_videos.php?user=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)/?$ view_channel.php?user=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

Answer 3

第二个RewriteRule语句与已经重写的url相匹配。