.htaccess rule match part of new url and use as query string for old url

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I am trying to match part of a URL and then use the matched expression to append onto the end of a query string from the old URL.

I have the following line in .htaccess, once I've worked out what I'm doing wrong I'll be able to fix the rest so for now I will just focus on the following line:

RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1

I would like ([^/]*)$ to appear where $1 is

So essentially: /league/29/matches/ would point to index.php?page=1074&league=29

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? :)

.htaccess mod-rewrite apache
1 Answers
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1

The $ (end-of-string anchor) after the subpattern ([^/]*)$, in the middle of the regex, does not make sense here and will cause the regex to fail. You should also be using the + quantifier here (1 or more). You are also missing the end-of-string anchor ($) at the end of the regex (otherwise the trailing /? is superfluous). Although you shouldn't really make the trailing slash optional on the rewrite as it potentially opens you up for duplicate content. (You should redirect to append/remove the trailing slash to canonicalise the URL instead.) You are also missing the L flag on the RewriteRule.

Try the following instead:

RewriteRule ^league/([^/]+)/matches/?$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]

Although, if you are expecting digits only (as in your example) then you should be matching digits, not anything. So, the following is perhaps "more" correct:

RewriteRule ^league/(\d+)/matches/$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]
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