.htaccess to pass parameters and remove the page name

Question

I have the following folder structure in my website:

     example.com/
                reports/
                        causelist/
                                 final_causelist.php

I have a link / URL to the final_causelist.php page is as:

http://example.com/reports/causelist/final_causelist.php?wb_sno=23&dated=2020-10-26&j_names=Mr.+ABC

I want to access the page like the following:

http://example.com/23/2020-10-26/Mr.+ABC

For the above, I created .htaccess in the causelist folder with the following code:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteBase /reports/causelist/
Options -Indexes

RewriteRule ^(\d+)/([a-z-]+)/(.+)/$ /final_causelist.php?wb_sno=$1&dated=$2&j_names=$3 [L,B]

But it does not show the page and complaint that the requesting page is not found on this server?

Answer 1

Your regex is not matching date part correctly and you must remove leading / from target as you're using a RewriteBase .

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /reports/causelist/

RewriteRule ^(\d+)/([\d-]+)/(.+?)/?$ final_causelist.php?wb_sno=$1&dated=$2&j_names=$3 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

Could you please try following.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\d+)/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})/(.+?)/?$
RewriteRule ^.*$ /reports/causelist/final_causelist.php?wb_sno=%1&dated=%2&j_names=%3 [QSA,NE,NC,L]