.htaccess with same index

Question

I have this url: http://domain.com/?i=f which is my forum page. I wish to rewrite that to http://domain.com/forum

I do that like this:

RewriteRule ^forum ?i=f [L]

That works fine. But here comes the problem. Since it is a forum, it also have categories and topics. Therefore, I have this url: http://domain.com/?i=f&p=t&cid=ID which is the categories page.

I wish to rewrite that to: http://domain.com/forum/cat/id

But if I do it like this:

RewriteRule ^forum/cat/([^/]*)$ /?i=f&p=t&cid=$1 [L]

It doesn't work. The URL /forum/cat/ID cannot be loaded.

What would the actual rule be to fix this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to add $ at the end of forum rule Right now I have no apache installed