[wplug] httpd rewrite help

[Chris Romano]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Michael H. Semcheski
<mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Neal Sofge wrote:
>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Chris Romano wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to write a RewriteRule but I'm not very get with regex.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to turn this link:
>>> www.example.com/a/k=VALUE1&u=VALUE2
>>>
>>> into this:
>>> www.example.com/a/index.php?k=VALUE1&u=VALUE2
>>>
>>> I've tried the following two rules and they don't work.  I'm just
>>> having a hard time find clear howtos on this.
>>> RewriteRule ^a/([^/]+)?$ a/index.php?$1 [L]
>>> RewriteRule   ^a/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)?$ a/index.php?k=$1&u=$2 [L]
>>>
>>> I have a few other rules that I've been able to get to work, but this
>>> one is giving me problems.
>>>
>> That first one looks promising -- what's the failure mode?
> What about ^/a/([^/]+)/$ for the match?
>

With that rule I get ...

404 Not Found

The requested URL /a/k=6ni6mq45e93q973v&u=161480 was not found on this server.

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