Hi all,
I couldn't find a forum specific to Apache, so I'm putting it here if you don't mind. If you do mind, let me know and I'll move it someplace else 
I'm trying to set up a RedirectMatch directive in a .htaccess file that redirects people visiting a fake directory to a file containing the directory name in its query string - e.g.:
Someone goes to http://www.gazchap.com/gallery/shrewsbury and instead they get redirected to http://www.gazchap.com/gallery/index.php?id=shrewsbury
The first directive I tried was RedirectMatch /gallery/(.*) http://www.gazchap.com/gallery/index.php?$1 but this didn't work, not only because Apache 1.3 escapes the ? into %3F, but also because the regular expression matches that URL as well, causing Apache to go into a redirection loop.
I've gotten around the %3F problem by using a / instead of a ?, but the other problem remains.
I want to exclude real files ending in .php from the regular expression. I've tried this expression: /gallery/(.*)[.php] but it doesn't work.
Can anyone offer any pointers?
