mod_rewrite

[dtsdave]

First of all, I apologize if this problem isn't appropriate for the coding forum (or any forum on this site). I saw some mod_rewrite threads in this forum so I assumed it would be all right.

My problem is mod_rewrite. Here's what I have in my .htaccess file right now:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?page=$1
</IfModule>

Say my page is named "nameofpage". The following URLs will work:
sitename.com/nameofpage
sitename.com/nameofpage/

My problem is that I'd like to have slashes in some of the page names. Say my page is named "nameof/page". I'd like the following URLs to work:
sitename.com/nameof/page
sitename.com/nameof/page/

They don't work, though. I figured it has something to do with this part of the rewrite rule:

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I've tried replacing it with different things. I've read different examples, the Apache manual, etc. Still no luck. The closest I got was a rewrite rule that allowed this to work (again assuming the page is named "nameof/page"):
sitename.com/nameof/page
but not:
sitename.com/nameof/page/

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[xblue]

Hi,

first of all, I think your 2 rules could easily be combined into 1, like

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1

This way, the trailing slash is optional and excluded from the page argument value.
Then, it would be easy to simply add the slash to the character class [a-zA-Z0-9], like

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1

however the first part would probably consume the trailing slash as well. I think this

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9/]*[a-zA-Z0-9])/?$ index.php?page=$1

might work the way you wanted.

[dtsdave]

It doesn't work. Thanks though.