Question : Regular expression problem while URL rewriting within .htaccess

Hi,

I'm having some problems rewriting some URL's in my .htaccess files. I want to rewrite everything to one php file, however the following doesn't work for some reason. (The .htaccess file is in the root)

   URL: www.mysite.dev/a/b/c/
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?r=$1 [L]
   page.php => $_GET['r'] = 'page.php'   UNEXPECTED ?????

Yet this does work:

   URL: www.mysite.dev/a/b/c/
   RewriteRule ^a/(.*)$ page.php?r=$1 [L]
   page.php => $_GET['r'] = 'b/c'     - EXPECTED

Is there a reason why its not working when your regular expression matches the whole path?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm stumped!!

Thanks!

Answer : Regular expression problem while URL rewriting within .htaccess

Yes, because page.php also matches. You can try:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?r=$1 [L]
or
RewriteRule ^(.*/.*)$ page.php?r=$1 [L]