# mod_rewrite in use
RewriteEngine On

# This needs to be set to allow URL manipulation on my server - setup on local dev server in httpd.conf
Options +FollowSymlinks

# Set the base URL
RewriteBase /

# we don't want rules to apply to this directory
RewriteRule   ^your-dir-name/.*$      - [L]

### set all page requests to go to www.domain.com instead of domain.com
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

########## Begin Standard SEF Section
RewriteRule ^profiles/([^/\.]+)/?$ profile.php?page=$1 [L]

# categories
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /view_category.php?cat_url=$1 [QSA,L]

# subcategories
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /view_subcategory.php?cat_url=$1&subcat_url=$2 [QSA,L]

## detailpages, second sends a state of the product detail page
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /view_product_detail.php?cat_url=$1&subcat_url=$2&product_url=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /view_product_detail.php?cat_url=$1&subcat_url=$2&product_url=$3&state=$4 [QSA,L]

#
########## End Standard SEF Section

########## Error documents
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php