Mod Rewrite - help!

[Demio]

I'm currently using apache 2.0 in my server and I want to make a mod_rewrite rule so that anything that goes to /articles/stuff is redirected to articles.php?codename=stuff but I'm having a hard time.

This is my htaccess file:

[code]RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/articles/([^/.]+)/?$ /articles.php?codename=$1  [L]
RewriteRule ^/([^/\.]+)/?$ $1.php [L][/code]

Can someone point me to the right way? :D

[Nexous]

[code]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/articles/([a-z]+)/ $ /articles.php?codename=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([a-z]+)/ $ /$1.php [L]
[/code]

That's how I would do it. Now obviously, that is allowing only a-z not any numbers.