Rewrite rule to change url

Question

I am trying to clean my URLs but everything I've tried so far seems to completely give me an 500 internal server error.

What I am trying to achieve is: www.site.com/en/?page=contact to change to: www.site.com/en/contact

and also links like this for example: www.site.com/en/?page=test&category=tester to change to: www.site.com/en/test/tester

my .htaccess is like so:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^?page=([-\w]+)$ www.site.com/en/$1 [NC,L]

but I've have no luck with it.

Answer 1

For your first URL you can use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /en/?page=$1 [L]

it will leave you with the URL: www.site.com/en/contact .

Your second rule will need to be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /en/?page=$1&category=$2 [L]

Which will leave you with the URL: www.site.com/en/test/tester .

Make sure you clear your cache before testing this.