Help me to merge 2 mod rewrite rule

How to merge two 2 mod_rewrite rules on appache server using .htaccess

[manov2k]

I've a CMS and wordpress blog installed on the root of my site (mistake, I should have installed WP on a sub folder)Both has index.php file extension. So I changed CMS's file to index1.php

So my .htaccess file contains two mod_rewrite rule; one for Wordpress and another one for other CMS. Below is the code

 # BEGIN WordPress
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
 RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 </IfModule>
 # END WordPress
 AddHandler server-parsed .html
 AddHandler server-parsed .htm
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
 RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ cat.php?pagename=$1 [L]
 RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?.html$ cat.php?pagename=$1 [L]
 RewriteRule category(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /cat.php?Start=$1&pagename=$2 [L]
 RewriteRule category(.*)/(.*)/$ /cat.php?Start=$1&pagename=$2 [L]
 RewriteRule page(.*)\.php$ /item.php?item=$1 [L]

In this case second rule is not working. But if I put second rule above the wordpress rule it works and vice-versa

It looks like both rules can be merged to single. So please help me.

Thanks :)
Mahesh Bhat

[jdMorgan]

You are going to need to move one or both applications into subdirectories. Otherwise, there is no way --based on the URL alone-- to tell which application script to rewrite to.

Jim