mod rewrite

[wemustdesign]

I have created a .htaccess file to shorten my url's. Works fine but cannot get the query string to pass to my page. The original url was

 

index.php?uk=North_East

 

after mod rewrite

?uk/North_East

 

.htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule index/uk/(.*) index.php?uk=$1

 

and to get the query string I am using:

$region= $_GET['uk'];

 

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[wemustdesign]

this is what I get when i print_r

 

Array ( [uk/North_East] => ) , UK