[plazmyd]

The MacNN community has been great in the past for helping me get past problems, so I hope it can do so again.

I am trying to set up a dynamic website to show clean urls using RewriteRule in Apache. I want the url to look like this:

www.site.com/variable1/variable2/variable3

and the page to be served from
www.site.com/variable1?id=variable2&sid=variable3

The problem is that, some of the pages only have variable1 and variable2, but some have three. And I may add a third to the ones that only have two later. Here is what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pdf
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/?(.*) $1?id=$2&sid=$3

The problem is that I cannot get the third variable to pass through. I have also tried

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/?(.*)$ $1?id=$2&sid=$3

Is there an easy way to write this?

[plazmyd]

I think I found a regular expression that does the job:

RewriteRule ^([_a-zA-Z]*)/([_a-zA-Z]*)/?([_a-zA-Z]*)$ $1?id=$2&sid=$3

I don't know why the first way with just the '.'s did not work. Maybe someone could still explin that so I will know.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by plazmyd:
I think I found a regular expression that does the job:

RewriteRule ^([_a-zA-Z]*)/([_a-zA-Z]*)/?([_a-zA-Z]*)$ $1?id=$2&sid=$3

I don't know why the first way with just the '.'s did not work. Maybe someone could still explin that so I will know.

I can't explain that, but maybe something like [^/] instead of [_a-zA-Z] would work better for you.

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