mod_rewrite... links like category/?page=2

Here's an example of the rewrite commands i have in my htacess:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ category.php?cat1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ category.php?cat1=$1 [L]

But sometimes the category has more than one page. I've seen people with urls like "domain.com/category" for the 1st page and "domain.com/category/?page=2" for the second page. How can I do that?

Thanks

 

You don't want '?page='. You want a static URL instead of a URL defeating the reason for mod_rewrite in the first place.

RewriteRule ^(.*)/page_(.*)/$ category.php?cat1=$1&page=$2 [L]

If it doesn't work, post the URL of page 2,3,4...

 

thanks for the advice