.htaccess rewrite redirect

I have some code which uses Rewrite engine in my .htaccess file and it specifies the directory for my SERPs. However when someone goes onto search/QUERY/ rather than search/QUERY/PAGE/ it displays a 404 error. Same with just search/.

I want it so that if someone just goes to search/QUERY/ that it redirects them to search/QUERY/1/ and for j开发者_JAVA技巧ust search/ it redirects them to my homepage /. I have included a copy of my code below.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ search.php?q=$1&category=web&d=$2

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance, Callum

Try this code in your htaccess :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^search/?$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/?$ /search/$1/1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ search.php?q=$1&category=web&d=$2 [NC,L]

You can create multiple RewriteRule statements to accomplish this. (Make sure to omit the [R] flag on intermediate rules if you use it!)

The rule you posted will only rewrite if it's of the form /search/query/n/, so write a regular expression matching search/query that redirects to /search/query/1. Do the same to redirect home with no query.

Try these additional 2 rules in your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/$ /search/$1/1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search/?$ / [R=301,L]