Removing page query string .htaccess

Question

I have a .htaccess file that creates a SEO URL. For example, let's say the ugly URL is: example.com/stories?url=hello-world&page=5 the URL becomes example.com/stories/hello-world/5

This works perfectly, but for the first page I want the URL to not display the page number. For example, I want a URL like this example.com/stories/hello-world/1 to be example.com/stories/hello-world How do I do this?

Current .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /stories/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /\?url=([^&\s]+)&page=([0-9]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2? [L,R=302]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?url=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

Abhishek Gurjar · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-19 07:53:05Z

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Try this it like this,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# for hello world first page we are giving static value 1 to page.
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?url=$1&page=1 [QSA,L]

# for others we are getting dynamic value.
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/([\d]+)$ index.php?url=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]

edited Jan 19, 2017 at 7:53

answered Jan 19, 2017 at 7:22

Abhishek Gurjar

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user2896120 Over a year ago

Hmm, with this it's not even letting me access the SEO URL, only the ugly URL for all pages.

Abhishek Gurjar Over a year ago

Where are you trying the rule, root directory or stories directory and where is the file which handling the requests?

user2896120 Over a year ago

The .htaccess file is in the stories directory, the file that is handling the requests is in the same directory under index.php

user2896120 Over a year ago

This works great! Is there a way to add a forward slash for the first page url? For example, example.com/stories/hello-world/

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