problem understanding rewrite

[leonglass]

I seem to be having a problem understanding how mod_rewrite is supposed to work. I have searched this board but can't seem to answer my question so here goes.

 

I want to implement clean urls so I have planned to rewrite

http://localhost/gamvc/users

into

http://localhost/gamvc/index.php?module=users

but seem to be unable to make it work. I am working with Apache 2.2.6 on a Linux box where the public dir is /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ and my test site is in a sub dir of that named gamvc. In the dir gamvc I have the file index.php and a .htaccess file the contents of which are:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^gamvc/([alpha]+) gamvc/index.php?module=$1 [L]

My htaccess file is definitely being accessed as I have verified this by causing internal server errors by placing an invalid directive in it. The contents of the index.php file are

print "{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']} <br />";
print "<a href='http://localhost/gamvc/users'>A Link</a>";

which gives me a web page displaying

/gamvc/index.php 
A Link

but always generates

The requested URL /gamvc/users was not found on this server.

when I click the link. I have tried adding RewriteBase / and /gamvc as directed in most of the posts I found here. I have also had the rule starting ^/?gamvc to try and account for the leading slash but my understanding is that this should not be required on a 2.x server. As far as my limited understanding goes the above rule should check for one or more alpabetical characters after gamvc/ and store it in the $1 atom. This atom should then be appended after the = sign in the target part.

 

Can anybody point out where my understanding has gone wrong. Thanks.

[leonglass]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /gamvc
RewriteRule ^([^/]+) index.php?module=$1 [PT]

This sorted it out. Does anyone know why my character class didn't work. [alpha] didn't match and [:alpha:] caused an internal server error.

[leonglass]

This now puts index.php into $_GET['module'] so it must be looping back and rematching. I changed the flag to [L] but this did not change it. I can also remove RewriteBase /gamvc and it still works. Looks like I still need some help. ???

[hackerkts]

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1/index.php?module=$2

 

Not sure if it works, but give it a try.