Rewriting into "different" folder

Known problem?

[ukgimp]

Battling with a rewrite and it occurred to me that there might be a problem when it comes to having things appear in different folders. Here the scenario.

url/detail-6.php works when detail.php?id=$c

but when I try and “change” the folder a la

url/detail/6.php

it wont stand for it. In that it wont find anything.

I hope the above makes sense, after reading it, it seems mighty confusing.

Cheers

[rpking]

Are you using 404s with PHP or mod rewrite?

Either way should work, you just need to get your syntax right. Can you post some of your code?

[ukgimp]

I have tried to de-specific it, so I am hopng that I have not created and error in that stage

rewriteRule folder\/detail-([0-9]+)\.php http:\/\/localhost\/folder\/detail.php?c=$1 [L]

works but

rewriteRule folder\/detail/([0-9]+)\.php http:\/\/localhost\/folder\/detail.php?c=$1 [L]

in the php the two respective urls are

detail-$var.php

and

detail/$var.php

The folders in the location are fine.

I am struggling as to why this wont work, but I must be missing something. It is not critical, just not the exact way I would like it.

Cheers

[rpking]

Your second rule has an unescaped / after detail... is that the problem?

[ukgimp]

rpking

I thank you. Regex, what fun lol

[rpking]

A nightmare if broken but when it works... beautiful!