.HTML to .PHP not quite working

[Karma]

I am trying to mod_rewrite the following:

mydomain.tld/ --> mydomain.tld/index.php
mydomain.tld/cateogry/blue.html --> mydomain.tld/index.php?category=blue
mydomain.tld/type/b.html --> mydomain.tld/index.php?type=b

The following seems to work, but I am unable to get any variables from the URL ($_GET["category"] for example).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^type/([^/]*)\.html$ index.php?type=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)\.html$ index.php?category=$1 [L]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1\.php

Where am I going wrong?

[Karma]

Please ignore, I had a problem with my PHP code.

[g1smd]

You have some problems with your code.

^type/([^/]*)\.html$

- allows

example.com/type/.html

to be a valid URL request.

You need

+

in place of

*

here and in all similar patterns.