Multiple rewrite rule not working

Question

Well URL rewriting is nightmare and I am having that for many days.
I am trying to rewrite url like:

• example.com/playground.php?room=abc123 TO example.com/room/abc123
• example.com/index.php?room=abc123&action=join TO example.com/join/abc123

I am being able to successfully rewrite the first URL (as in the first case) but am not being able to rewrite the second URL properly. It is being rewritten as example.com/room/join/abc123 . I understand that the first rule is being applied for both cases and then the execution of the htaccess stops. But then how to manage to get the desired solution?

HTACCESS

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php !-f
RewriteRule ^room/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ playground.php?room=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php !-f
RewriteRule ^join/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ index.php?room=$1&action=join [L]

Answer 1

You problem is not in the URL rewriting, but it has to do with your playground.php . It has relative URLs instead of absolute URLs. Please change join/abc123 to /join/abc123 .

Also there is a tiny error in your .htaccess

You should change

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php !-f

to

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f