Mod Rewrite Rules - One works, one doesn't.

[Flukey]

Hey,

I'm using a mod rewrite rule for my site, and one of the rules works(index.php) but the other doesn't (article.php), and i can't work out what the problem is. It's probably really easy to solve, but i've confused myself!

Anyhows, here is the script:

[CODE]

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^article/([^/\.]+)/?$ article.php?article=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

[/CODE]

Thanks.

Jamie

[Flukey]

Haha.

How comes this way works:

[CODE]
RewriteRule ^random/([^/\.]+)/?$ article.php?article=$1 [L]
[/CODE]

But this doesn't:

[CODE]
RewriteRule ^article/([^/\.]+)/?$ article.php?article=$1 [L]
[/CODE]

??? ??? ???

[Flukey]

Ok, worked it out.

For future reference to anyone else who has this problem.

The fancy url variable cannot be the same name as the filename.

E.g. i can't use [b]article [/b] as the page name is called [b]article.php[/b]

I'm going to use [b]articles [/b]instead now.

Learn something new everyday, woot.