yet another mod rewrite question

any help would be well appreciated

[zuko105]

I want requests to /projects/this-is-the-id to get rewritten with a rule to /article.php?project_name=this-is-the-id

My RewriteRule is as so:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/projects/(.*?)/?$ /article.php?project_name=$1 [L,NC]

I've verified that my .htaccess file is getting picked up. Any help here?

Thanks so much in advance.

[TowerOfPower]

RewriteRule ^projects/(.*)/*$ /article.php?project_name=$1 [L,NC]

[zuko105]

Holy mess and mother of God!

You rock the T.O.P.!

That worked perfectly!

of course a name like 'TowerOfPower' must have been earned somehow.

Mad props Tower. Thanks so much.

-zuko

[g1smd]

The .* is "greedy" as a pattern match.

There will be a way of simplifying that to make it more efficient.