HTACCESS how do i battle with my code to get the right redirect

Question

My HTACCESS file currently looks like this:

RewriteEngine On        
RewriteBase /

# stop directory listings
#Options -Indexes 

#stops htaccess views
#<Files .htaccess>
#order allow,deny
#deny from all
#</Files>        

# redirect game folders     
RewriteRule ^games/([^/]+)/([^/]+) games.php?author=$1&slug=$2 [L]   

# redirect edit     
RewriteRule ^protected/edit-game/([^/]+)/([^/]+) protected/edit-game.php?author=$1&slug=$2 [L] 
RewriteRule ^admin/edit-game/([^/]+)/([^/]+) admin/edit-game.php?author=$1&slug=$2 [L]

# redirect view     
RewriteRule ^protected/view-game/([^/]+)/([^/]+) protected/view-game.php?author=$1&slug=$2 [L]   

# redirect user
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+) user.php?user=$1 [L]  

# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]     

# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]

# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]

# add .php to access file, but don't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]   

ErrorDocument 404 /error-404.php

I have a new requirement to make it so when someone goes www.domain.com/im-a-page-in-database

It goes to my page.php, grabs the hidden 'slug' -> 'im-a-page-in-database' and queries the database returning that specific page object.

Thing is, if I add into my HTACCESS file something like this:

# redirect pages/posts 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+) page.php?slug=$1 [L]     

It just overwrites all the previous rewrites that may be successful and displays my page.php regardless of where it is placed in the htaccess file?? I thought L meant if the rule was recognised... it should stop trying to do stuff. so if i put my new line under all my redirects, it should do the page check last.. but nope :(

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Maybe that's because of your 301-Redirect? The browser caches these redirects, so you'll have to try an other browser or clear your cache.