.htaccess RewriteEngine not working for secondary GET

Question

I'm creating friendly links in my site, but I have a problem. I wrote this, but only the first line of code is working, and I'n not sure why:

RewriteRule ^user/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) user.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/options user.php?user=$1&options [NC,L]

When I go to test.com/user/tom everything is fine, but when I try test.com/user/tom/options it just loda the same page.

I have php script that should load different pages, for different $_GET , and its working if used with normal links.

Answer 1

The correct thing to do here is not to swap the lines around. Whilst that may fix your problem, it will also send user/tom/foo/bar to the first rule. The reason it does this is because the pattern is not closed with $ . As such, your rules should read as follows:

RewriteRule ^user/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)$ user.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/options$ user.php?user=$1&options [NC,L]

Tip: If you also have other pages for the user, you can simplify the second rule to include different segments by means of a capture:

 RewriteRule ^user/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/(options|other-page)$ user.php?user=$1&$2 [NC,L] 

Also giving consideration to the fact that you are using the NC (no case) flag, you can drop the AZ in your capture groups. You can also use \\d for digits. Example [az\\d]+