how do I use rewriteRule in htaccess-CodePudding

I'm trying to redirect some urls to pretty urls and the thing is that I'm new to this so I can't seem to figure out what part I did wrong this is the htaccess right now but the rewrite rule is not working.

   # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ -
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([.] )/([.] )$ index.php?search_categories%5B]=$1&search_location=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule . /index.php [L] 

</IfModule>
# END WordPress

CodePudding user response：

Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^(. [^/])/(. )$ index.php?search_categories=$1&search_location=$2 [QSA,L]

In your rule you have: search_categories[], may be a mistake while copy/paste I removed the [] even this is not the problem

^(. [^/])/(. )$ match category/location the rule [^/] is to not match the slash /

EDIT:

It can also simplified with just: ^([^/]*)/(.*)$

In your code [.] the dot match Any single character but brackets is used for range like [abc] will match a, b or c, so it will not work with just [.] , also like I wrote before you have to not match the slash with [^/] this last one must be inside brackets, more here and Cheat Sheet

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