url rewrite

[scott17b]

I am trying to rewrite my some of my urls. I posted the following in my .htaccess file and it isnt working

RewriteRule ^page/about\.html$ pages.php?page=3 [NC]

I am trying to make the generated page of www.yoursite/page/3.html
into www.yoursite/page/about.html

note: I am running 68 classifieds seo friendly urls. I have read articles on it but apparently Im still missing something!

any help is appreciated!

Scott

[Eric Barnes]

How about trying this:
RewriteRule ^about\.html$ pages.php?page=3 [NC]

Of course that isn't what you are after but if it works we can go from there.

[scott17b]

Eric,
I tried the code under:

#pages
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)\.html$ pages.php?page=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^about\.html$ pages.php?page=3 [NC]

It didnt work.
I tried removing the code and placing just what you suggested and it didnt work.

#pages
RewriteRule ^about\.html$ pages.php?page=3 [NC]

anything else?

[juven14]

be sure what you tried goes before existing rules, otherwise the other rules for pages will be processed and quit when a match is found.

#pages
RewriteRule ^page/about\.html$ pages.php?page=3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)\.html$ pages.php?page=$1 [NC]

[scott17b]

juven14,

Thanks for the input i placed both versions of the code before the existing rule, one at a time and still nothing. (i did delete my browser history before checking each one) ??? Im puzzled!

[juven14]

can you pm me your .htaccess contents? Also, what do you mean by not work, you are getting a 501 error or the page simply doesn't redirect? You type what url and you get what url?