Applying mod rewrite to files in folders

[Tom_Cash]

Hey Peeps,
Mod_rewrite isn't one of my strong points and I've recently been doing a lot of discovery and now I'm stuck.

I want the following code to work from the root directory.

# /search term / category id / manufacturer id / page number
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([0-9_]+)/([0-9_]+)/([0-9_]+)$ index.php?c=$1&cat=$2&man=$3&p=$4 [L]

It works a treat inside the required folder. However, I can't get it to work from the root, as mentioned.

I've tried a couple of things, such as the following:

# /search term / category id / manufacturer id / page number
RewriteRule ^advanced_search/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ advanced_search/index.php?c=$1&cat=$2&man=$3&p=$4 [L]

But I have to be honest... I don't completely understand how this works and can't solve my problem.

This is my file structure:

root
- .htaccess
- /advanced_search
--- index.php

Any help people could offer would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Tom.

[g1smd]

What does "does not work" mean?

What URL did you test?
What was the result?
What HTTP status code was returned? (Use Live HTTP Headers to check this.)

[jdMorgan]

Assuming that the "/advanced_search" subdirectory and this .htaccess code are both located in the top-level directory, then your code should have worked. Did you delete your browser cache before testing in order to avoid seeing stale/cached server responses?

Jim