Regular expression slug before another word

Question

I'm making a writer's website and I want to showcase some books, and then some excerpts.

I want the URLs to look like this: site.com/book/name-of-book site.com/book/name-of-book/excerpt

I managed to do the first part with this htacess:

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f # Remove .php from regular pages RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L] # Directory style books RewriteRule ^book/(.*)$ ./book.php?slug=$1 # Directory style books excerpts RewriteRule ^book/(.*)/excerpt$ ./book-excerpt.php?slug=$1

My problem is the second part as it is not working, the book.php is loaded, instead of book-excerpt.php.

I've been researching on how to do this, but all solutions throughout the web seem to not work for me. What am I doing wrong? Is the first rule overriding the second? How can I fix this?

And "it is not woriking" means what ? Do you get an error? Which? Does the client hang? How long? Do you receive a falthy answer? Which? Does the universe implode? We cann guess that, you need to tell us. — arkascha
– arkascha, Commented May 22, 2018 at 11:49
The issue most likely is the order of processing: since the last-but-one rule always matches there is no way the last rule will ever get applied. Change their order! — arkascha
– arkascha, Commented May 22, 2018 at 11:50
@arkascha added some details. I tried changing the order, as you said, but the result was the same. — Bruno Braga
– Bruno Braga, Commented May 22, 2018 at 12:46
@arkascha the first rule follows the same ideal as the last-but-one. By swaping all the rules 1-2-3 to 3-2-1 I could make it work. — Bruno Braga
– Bruno Braga, Commented May 22, 2018 at 12:50

Bruno Braga · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-22 12:52:11Z

Since the rules were overriding each other, swaping all of them (1-2-3 to 3-2-1) made it work.

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f # Directory style books excerpts RewriteRule ^book/(.*)/excerpt$ ./book-excerpt.php?slug=$1 # Directory style books RewriteRule ^book/(.*)$ ./book.php?slug=$1 # Remove .php from regular pages RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

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