Custom htaccess rule for Joomla article not working

13 years 1 month ago #6065 by daveb
I'm creating a custom SEF (non-SEFAdvance) deep link in Joomla 1.5 for a Joomla article which contains a url parameter (video id).  This is for Google to index my videos inside my video player so i have a unique url for each video.  I created a RewriteRule in root .htaccess file.  Which converts sef url to non-sef joomla url.
Example:
RewriteRule ^video/([a-z0-9-_]+)/?$ index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119&Itemid=189&v=$1 [NC,L]

This doesn't work if SEFAdvance is enabled.  It just sends me to the homepage.  Works if SEFAdvance is disabled.
Debug info:
SEF Advance debug information
Array
(
    [option] => com_content
    [view] => frontpage
    [id] => 119
    [Itemid] => 1
    [v] => 983849384
    [limit] => 9
)
/video/983849384/
Parsed in: 0.990 seconds, 9.39 MB

Is this correct to create a rewrite rule in .htaccess or should this be inside SEFAdvance configuration?  Or is there a way for SEFAdvance to ignore anything inside /video?  Or a different way to set this up?

SEFAdvance version: 2.2.6

Thanks

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