Quick .htaccess question - not have trailing slash after file re-write

[tec-4]

Hi all,

 

Trying to figure out why the page I'm creating works when I place a trailing slash but 404's when i take it off...trying to get it to not have it.

 

For example, this code:

 

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-+\(\)#%|_,]+-test-page)([A-Za-z0-9\-/+_\(\)]+)$ file.php?city=$1&query=$2 [L]

 

results in: example DOT com/city-test-page/ and if I take off the trailing slash it goes to a 404 but would like it to be the other way around.

 

Also when I take the "([A-Za-z0-9\-/+_\(\)]+)" and "&query=$2" out it works correctly in regards to trailing slash but they query doesn't work.

 

Any thoughts?

[cags]

What are you expecting the &query part to contain? The simple answer is that with the trailing slash of your URI the second capture group has something to capture (the /), without it it doesn't match anything, meaning your pattern doesn't match so the RewriteRule won't get applied. Something like this would probably be more approriate, as the second capture group doesn't have a required width and will not contain the trailing slash. Alternatively you could write one RewriteRule for 1 'directory' deep and another for 2.

 

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+-test-page)/?([A-Za-z0-9-]*)$ file.php?city=$1&query=$2 [L]