Rewrite 2 sections of URL for HTACCESS file

Question

I want to convert a url like this url/2013/08/a-very-long-description/

to something like this url/page?name=a-very-long-description

this is what i've tried thus far and fail RewriteRule ^2013/08\/(.*) url/page?name=$1 [L,R=301]

this is the result I get is url/page?name=a-very-long-description/.php

which if i could remove the /.php would work, but cant seem to wrap my head around it

other speculations in the htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

Answer 1

You have another rule that is tacking on the .php to the end. You need to make sure this rule is before that one. And change your rule to:

RewriteRule ^2013/08\/([^/]+) url/page?name=$1 [L,R=301]