Help writting this one

[Brian W]

Hi, trying to do some rules for the very first time and having difficulties.

I wanted to change /quotes/Author/John to quotes.php?Author=John.

That wasn't that hard, but I want now to expand on that:

/quotes/var1/val1/var2/val2/var3/val3/and so/on

this is what I tried

RewriteRule ^/(Author|bg|owner)/(.*)/$ $1=$2& [N]

Author, bg, and owner are just three possible fields so far, their will be more. I can't find example of using the [N] flag, so I don't know how I'm really supposed to get it to work. Currently my .htaccess looks like this

 

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
#	mod_rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^quotes/$ http://www.signature-block.com/quotes.php?
RewriteRule ^/(Author|bg|owner)/(.*)/$ $1=$2& [N]

I think it is my shared server, but it acts like I'm using the [R] flag on everything.

The effect is

http://www.signature-block.com/quotes/

takes me to

http://www.signature-block.com/quotes.php

but

http://www.signature-block.com/quotes/Author/John/

doesn't work. It tells me it can't find the page "quotes/Author/John/"

Any input appreciated, thank you.