.htaccess friendly url. What am i doing wrong

Question

I have the following link which is working:

jobdetails.php?url=Human-Resoure-Manager-3-5

I want to convert it to a friend link below but i don't know what wrong with my htaccess:

/jobdetails/Human-Resoure-Manager-3-5

 Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^jobdetails/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ jobdetails.php?url=$1

Possible duplicate of [Reference: mod\_rewrite, URL rewriting and "pretty links" explained](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20563772/reference-mod-rewrite-url-rewriting-and-pretty-links-explained) — hjpotter92, Jul 21 '17 at 14:01

nickstaroba · Answer 1 · 2017-07-21T14:10:42.293

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You're not matching the dashes "-", try this:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^jobdetails\/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\/$ jobdetails.php?url=$1

edited Jul 21 '17 at 14:10

answered Jul 21 '17 at 14:01

nickstaroba

thanks for the reply. I am still getting the same "/jobdetails/Human-Resoure-Manager-3-5 was not found on this server.' – Elias Jul 21 '17 at 14:04
try escaping the slashes? I edited my example to reflect. – nickstaroba Jul 21 '17 at 14:11
I am still getting the same error. I have just given up – Elias Jul 21 '17 at 14:36
regerx.com might help – nickstaroba Jul 21 '17 at 14:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '17 at 16:34

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After extensive searching in discovered that i was leaving out ? before $ jobdetails/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ was forgeting to put ? here $

answered Jul 21 '17 at 16:34

Elias

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