Rewrite rule with pagination .htaccess

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I have a URL like this:

http://example.com/category/title which comes from the link http://example.com/cview.php?url=title

I want to create pagination and to be like http://example.com/category/title/page/1 or http://example.com/category/title/1 this comes from http://example.com/cview.php?url=title&pageno=1.

I have tried this in .htaccess without success

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)$/([^/]+)/?$ /cview.php?url=$2&pageno=$1 [L]

Can anyone help please?

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1 Answers
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)$/([^/]+)/?$ /cview.php?url=$2&pageno=$1 [L]

You have an erroneous $ (end-of-string anchor) in the middle of the RewriteRule pattern. You also appear to have the backreferences $1 and $2 the wrong way round. You are also allowing an optional trailing slash, yet your example URLs do not use this. (An optional trailing slash potentially creates a duplicate content issue.)

If you allow both /category/title/page/1 and /category/title/1 then you are potentially creating a duplicate content issue. Presumably you are only linking to one of these URL formats?

Since the page number is a "number" then it makes sense to just match numbers, rather than anything - this also helps to avoid conflicts with other directives.

It doesn't look like you need the conditions (RewriteCond directives) that check the request does not map to a file or directory, since I wouldn't expect a request of the form /category/title/page/1 to map to a file or directory anyway?

Try the following instead (without the RewriteCond directives):

RewriteRule ^category/([^/]+)(?:/page)?/(\d+)$ /cview.php?url=$1&pageno=$2 [L]

This matches both /category/title/page/<num> and /category/title/<num>. The optional subpattern (?:/page) is non-capturing, so that it doesn't mess up the numbering of the backreferences.

Bear in mind also that the order of the rules in .htaccess is important in order to avoid conflicts.

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