.htaccess clean url with more than 3 paramenters

Question

I am new to .htaccess and I seem to be having some problems getting it to clean up the url for me.

I have

site.com?p=article&id=3&read=article title

I am able to get the first variable to work ok like site.com/articles. but when I try to go further the server is saying it cant find it. I have tried several methods none of which seem to be working.

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?p=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?p=$1

this above is working

I have tried

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+)(/([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+))?/?$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2

and

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2&read=$3

the last 2 are not working. help please. Thanks

Answer 1

Let's try something like this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /index.php?p=$1&id=$2&read=$3 [L]

Answer 2

%{QUERY_STRING} is what you are looking for.

this is what I use for a similar situation:

RewriteRule   ^/(.*)  /index.php?r=/$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]