URL Rewriting - .htaccess apache

Question

So I am using a script from the internet and i get the following URL generated:

http://mydomain.net/pages/92/Marketing-Idea

And I want it to look the following:

http://mydomain.net/marketing-idea

I'm noob with the URL rewriting, so after looking up for some tutorials I've tired the following rule / condition but it doesn't work at all:

RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    /pages/$1/$2    [NC,L]    # pages

Any one that could help me? I'm desperate here and can't get this crap to work!!

This is the entire .htaccess file as it is:

#SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks 
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>    
RewriteEngine on    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /pages/$1/$2 [NC,L]
</ifModule>
<ifModule mod_expires.c>    
ExpiresActive On    
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"  
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds" 
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"   
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"  
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"   
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds" 
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"  
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
</ifModule>
<ifModule mod_deflate.c>
<filesmatch "\.(js|css|html|jpg|png|gif|eot|woff|ttf|svg)$">
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</filesmatch>
</ifModule>

<FilesMatch "\.(htaccess|htpasswd|ini|log|sh|inc|bak|cache)$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

Best Regards, Dorian

Answer 1

Try this rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /pages/$1/$2 [NC,L]