quick url rewrite question

I don't see what I'm doing wrong

[mcvoid]

Hey all,

I want /page/somenumber to rewrite as /index?page=somenumber.
The line I have in the .htaccess is:

RewriteRule ^page/(0-9+) ./index.php?page=$1

But I'm getting a 404 error! It says /page/1 not found. What am I missing? I have other near-identical rules that all work, and I don't see what's so different. Any help?

[g1smd]

There's a period before the slash that shouldn't be there.

You need to add the [L] flag to this rule.

[mcvoid]

The period before the slash is because it's not in the root directory and would redirect to a non-existent file one directory up if I didn't include the period. What does the [L] stand for?

[g1smd]

*** redirect to a non-existent file ***

This code is not for a 'redirect'. What you have there is a 'rewrite'. Is that what you want?

The [L] stands for Last rule. It stops processing here, and should always be included unless you know exactly why you need to omit it.

jdmorgan wrote a very good post about this in the last 24 hours in an earlier thread here.

[mcvoid]

I meant rewrite, yes. I figured it out - i changed the ^page/(0-9+) to ^page/([0-9+]) and it seems to be working now, though I'm not sure why that's important. Maybe I should learn regex's better...

Well, thanks for your help. I learned something new, and that's always good.

[jdMorgan]

Look at your server error log to see what filepath that rewrite is resolving to. Compare the path to the desired filepath, and correct the code as needed.

AFAIK, "./" is not a option here. Try either no slash or a slash plus the full path from root. mod_rewrite in .htaccess cannot traverse above the Web root.

Jim

[mcvoid]

I took the "./" and it still worked, so i think it's good now. I remember reading somewhere that, when it's not part of the regex, the period gets substituted for the current document path.