User-friendly URL with HTACCESS parameters

Question

I am passing the whole old site to url friendly and with it came several problems on the old site the url was that way

http://meusite/download/programa.php? title=Avast-free-Antivirus

and with the new url wanted it to stay that way

http://meusite/download/Avast-free-Antivirus

I entered HTACCESS and created these rules

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

RewriteRule ^/download/([a-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /download/programa.php?title=$1 [NC]

then when accessing http://meusite/download/Avast-free-Antivirus for the server I’m accessing the page http://meusite/download/programa.php? title=Avast-free-Antivirus

On the program page I check whether what is coming in the title variable is equal to any database title

so the url doesn’t work I don’t know if it’s because I did something wrong or if I can’t do it that way upon accessing http://meusite/download/Avast-free-Antivirus of the error Not Found

Not Found

The requested URL /download/Avast-free-Antivirus was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.23 (Win64) PHP/5.6.25 Server at mega Port 80

says the page was not found

Answer 1

You did this:

RewriteRule ^/download/([a-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /download/programa.php?title=$1 [NC]

But for what it seems to desire the right is this (and remove the / front of both download/):

RewriteRule ^download/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ download/programa.php?title=$1 [NC]