Need help rewritng Author Urls

Hi Drew,

It doesn't seem to be working, i'm starting to think i gave you the wrong information. My current .htaccess file is below:

SetEnv PHPRC /home/zurimaga/public_html/php.ini
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>  
    RewriteEngine on 

    RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/preview$ /blog/post.php?s=$1&preview=all [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^author/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?author=$1 [L]

    # /blog/06/10/15/archive.php?author=zuri-magazine

    RewriteRule ^blog/date/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?year=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/date/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?year=$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^blog/tag/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/tag/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?tag=$1 [L]

    # Redirect to PHP if it exists.
    # e.g. example.com/foo will display the contents of example.com/foo.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f 
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

</IfModule>


SetEnv TZ Europe/London

#Gzip
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript image/svg+xml
</ifmodule>
#End Gzip


## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/js "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Here's what a typical blog url looks like on my site:

https://zurimagazine.com/blog/11/10/15/help-which-essential-oil-do-i-use-on-my-natural-hair

So i'm guessing with the right line in my .htaccess file, the author link should look like this:

https://www.zurimagazine.com/blog/author/zuri-magazine

Hi Drew,

The snippet you sent over didn't work so i done a little trial and error and got it doing something. My url now looks like this:

https://www.zurimagazine.com/blog/archive.php?author=zuri-magazine

using this line in my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/author$ /blog/archive.php?author=$1 [L]

Is there anyway I can get rid of:

archive.php?

with an end result of:

https://www.zurimagazine.com/blog/author/zuri-magazine

Hi Drew,

i've added the author code at the bottom of my file and still no luck