htaccess regex rewrite rule

Question

i have a wordpress website with a cpt called jobs. i have a jobs archive enabled and the slug is set to 'work-for-us' currently the url of each job post looks like this:

http://localhost:8080/projects/pfs/work-for-us/job-1/

each job will have an apply button and i would like that to be also added into the url above.

i started this by adding a query string 'apply', now my url looks like this:

http://localhost:8080/projects/pfs/work-for-us/job-1/?apply

the output from the 'apply' query string will show an application form if it exists in the url.

everything above works as it should. the only thing i want to do is to make the url prettier so it doesnt have the '?' and will give me the same output just entering:

http://localhost:8080/projects/pfs/work-for-us/job-1/apply/

how to do i edit the htaccess file to achieve this.

here is my attempt:

RewriteRule ^work-for-us/(.*)/?apply$ work-for-us/$1/apply/ [R,L]

my current htaccess file sits in the root of pfs which is the wordpress website:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /projects/pfs/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(work-for-us/[^?]*)\?(apply) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^(work-for-us/.+?)/(apply)/?$ $1?$2 [L,QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /projects/pfs/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

You can use this code in your /projects/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /projects/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(work-for-us/[^?]*)\?(apply) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteRule ^(work-for-us/.+?)/(apply)/?$ $1?$2 [L,QSA,NC]