Topic: RewriteRule not working after 5th rule

[sdbhabal]

Hello Experts,

I am stuck in a viard issue.
I have the below set of RewriteRule configured in httpd.conf for one of my domain.

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<Directory "/var/www/html/test/">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/1.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule le/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/2.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule lo/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/3.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule l/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/4.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule w/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/5.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule s/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/6.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule n/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/7.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
require all granted
</Directory>
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The rule after the 5th rule is not working in the above rule set.
In my case, the rules below are not working.

RewriteRule s/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/6.php?d=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule n/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/7.php?d=$1 [L,NC]

Both these rules give the same output like 5th rule.
I also shuffled the rules up and down still any rules after 5th rule are not working as expected.
I don't know what I am doing wrong or missing anything, any help will be highly appreciated.
Please advise.

Thanks and regards,
sdbhabal.

[tangent]

I've been unable to reproduce your RewriteRule problem in a test environment (Apache 2.4.59). For me, any number of sequential RewriteRules can be made to trigger, using appropriate test URLs.

However, I am somewhat confused by your regular expression constructs, and would suggest you check they match what you're expecting (I use https://regex101.com to test regular expressions - using the PCRE2 flavour).

Only your first RewriteRule regex contains a start of line anchor (^). Is that intentional?
Secondly, in all rules your forward slash is followed by a question mark (?), which therefore matches 0 or 1 forward slashes. Again, is that intentional (specifically 0 matches)?

A combination of these two constructs means any number of two characters sub-strings will match, depending on their position within a string.

To help. can you provide a list of sample URLs for your site, which you need to match your various RewriteRules.

Further, I'd turn up debugging for rewrite events, so you can see what's happening (in the Apache error.log file). Add the following to your configuration file: