htaccess rewrite rules trouble [L]

Question

Can anyone help me please with .htaccess?

I have a folder system on my site:

user
- index.php
- profile.php
- login.php
- other pages.php
page
- contact.php
- products.php
index.php

When someone comes to my website example.com it shows the index.php page. I use .htaccess to have clean URL's.

example.com/contact must include /page/contact.php into index.php.

example.com/user/username/profile must include /user/profile.php into user/index.php.

example.com/products/spinningbike include product.php into index.php and shows the details of product spinningbike.

This is my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^login /user/login.php [L]
RewriteRule ^user/(\w+)/?$ /user/index.php?id=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1

I always get these php errors in my log files:

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'page/user.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/example.com/public_html/index.php on line 115, referer: http://www.example.com/user/wim/profile PHP Warning: include(page/user.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/example.com/public_html/index.php on line 115, referer: http://www.example.com/user/wim/profile

I think the [L] is not working properly.

this is not related to apache and htaccess, this is a PHP error. on line 115 of index.php, your script tries to include the file page/user.php which does not exist. — ᴄʀᴏᴢᴇᴛ
Normally the .htaccess should stop at the second rewriterule, so my last rewrite rule should not be excecuted. That's why I get that php error. — wimdemo
No because the 2nd rule matches urls like http://example.com/user/username/ as you have "profile" at the end of the url, the last rule is used — ᴄʀᴏᴢᴇᴛ

ᴄʀᴏᴢᴇᴛ ᴄʀᴏᴢᴇᴛ · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-16T17:59:13

with the htaccess defined like this, the url example.com/user/username/profile will be matched with the last rule. because the 2nd rule will only match the urls of this format : example.com/user/[any word character]

word characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _.

You have to change the 2nd rule to match this url

RewriteRule ^user/(\w+)/(\w+)/?$ /user/index.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L]

This way, the url example.com/user/username/profile will be rewritten example.com/user/index.php?id=username&page=profile

htaccess rewrite rules trouble [L]

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