Strange Rewriterule

[neroag]

Hi All

i have a rewrite of ..
RewriteRule ^news/test/([0-9]+)\.html$ xnews.php?newsid=$1 [L]
that works a treat

however /test/ can change so i tried ..

RewriteRule ^news/([a-z]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ xnews.php?newsid=$1 [L]

and now it doesnt work can anyone help plz?

many thanks

[phranque]

$1 is now the ([a-z]+) capture group so if you still want to use the ([0-9]+) capture group you should use $2 in the substitution string.

[neroag]

sorry im looking for it to match whatever is in the /test/ so really the /test/ wants to just be a wildcard is that possible?

[phranque]

right now you are matching one or more consecutive lower case alphabetic characters.
if you want it to match "anything" up to the next forward slash, you could try:
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ xnews.php?newsid=$2 [L]

(you still want to use $2 because it is now the second group.)

[jdMorgan]

If the 'test' field of the requested URL is to be discarded, then the parentheses around the first subpattern are not required.

However, discarding parts of the requested URL can easily cause a duplicate-content "penalty" problem.

Jim