Rewrite URLs Using .htaccess

Question

Referring to the article here I created my .htaccess file with the following lines

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/product/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ /index.php?route=product&product=$1 [L]

but this doesn't work and I get a 404 error.

I want URLs like

http://localhost/product/12/some-random-text.html

to be redirected to

http://localhost/index.php?route=product&product=12

I am using GoDaddy's Linux hosting

Answer 1

Try changing your RewriteRule to:

RewriteRule ^product/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ /index.php?route=product&product=$1 [QSA,L]