How to use mod_rewrite to write SEO friendly url

Question

I have been at this for about 4 hours now and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Here is my .htaccess mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ jobs.php?seo_url=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ jobs.php?seo_url=$1

Any help is much appreciated! I have already verified mod_rewrite is enabled/turned on with my Apache server.

Answer 1

This is how I got mine to work with my website

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^mywebsite/public/jobs/(.+)/?$ /mywebsite/public/jobs.php?seo_url=$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>

Did this a while ago but learnt from here