Query string url to seo friendly url

Question

i am trying to rewrite a URL for SEO purpose.

The old URL is:

http://www.example.com/recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=1

The new URL should be like bellow and automatic redirect to this url if user come above url

http://www.example.com/recipes/healthy-recipes

My Code in the .htaccess is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^recipes/healthy-recipes/$ recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^recipes/healthy-recipes$ recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=$1 [NC,L]

Even after hours of research, i have no clue why this is not working :(

What URL are you going to and what are you expecting to see? — Jon Lin
– Jon Lin, Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 5:22
How can healthy-recipes become hl_cusine=1 in rewrite rules only? — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 7:40
You are trying to do things at once (as people frequently do in this scenario). First, you want to make it so that when a user types in http://www.example.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/42, it acts as though they typed http://www.example.com/recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=42 (internal rewrite). Second, with a completely different rule, you want to make it so that when a user actually types http://www.example.com/recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=42, their browser is told to instead load http://www.example.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/42 (external redirect). — IMSoP
– IMSoP, Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 12:49

Michael Coleman · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18 04:50:10Z

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The $1 in your rewrite is pointing to a backreference you never capture.
Unless you have a RewriteCond you are not showing?
try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^recipes/healthy-recipes/$ recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^recipes/healthy-recipes$ recipe_local.php?hl_cusine=1 [NC,L]

answered Feb 18, 2015 at 4:50

Michael Coleman

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Vijaysinh Parmar Over a year ago

@Michael...now url is opens like example.com/recipes/healthy-recipes but its not redirect automatically

Michael Coleman Over a year ago

can you explain a bit more?

Vijaysinh Parmar Over a year ago

I am trying to add in pagination...so it will take parameter from url and make dynamic url example.com/recipe_local.php?page=2&hl_cusine=1 to example.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/1

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