Rewrite not working

[c_pattle]

I have the following in my .htaccess file. 

 

RewriteEngine on

Options -Indexes

 

#Re-write rules

RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ $1.php

RewriteRule colour/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ index.php?colour=$1

RewriteRule article/([0-9]+)$ article.php?number=$1

 

My first two rewrite rules work but the last one doesn't.  I want the url - article.php?number=1 - to be replaced with - article/1.  At the moment the redirect still takes me to the article.php page but the "number" variable seems to not be defined. 

 

Thanks for any help. 

[cags]

You mean $_GET['number'] is empty? The code you have looks correct. You could add [R=302] as a temporary measure to see where the URL is getting forwarded to.

[c_pattle]

Yeah the "$_GET['number']" variable is empty.  The url seems to be redirecting to the right file but for some reason that variable is empty. 

[wildteen88]

Try disabling multiviews

Options -Indexes -Multiviews

[c_pattle]

Thanks, what does that do.  I tried it but it seems to make all of the links on my site now work. 

[wildteen88]

multiviews allows you to call for files without stating their extension. When it is enabled you can call site.com/about.php using site.com/about

 

Explanation from the manual

A MultiViews search is enabled by the MultiViews Options. If the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo and /some/dir/foo does not exist' date=' then the server reads the directory looking for all files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements, and returns that document.[/quote']

[c_pattle]

Ah okay.  I made a mistake on my previous post.  I meant to say that it makes all of my links "not" work rather than "now" work.  Do you know why thats happening?

[wildteen88]

What do you links look like?

 

Also in order for this rule to work

RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ $1.php

You need to remove the forward slash.