I'm trying to rewrite URLs as follows:
- www.example.com/module-name(/) => handler.php?module=module-name
- www.example.com/module-name/list/of/arguments(/) => handler.php?module=module-name&args=list/of/arguments (which I explode later in the script)
If module-name is missing or not allowed, it loads the home page of the website. No problems here.
The problem is that mod_rewrite isn't working as it should. I wrote these rewrite rules...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ handler.php?module=$1
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)/?$ handler.php?module=$1&args=$2
...but instead of passing module-name as module to the handler, the rewrite engine passes the name of the script itself, handler.php. I tried with different regex in the last two days, but the result is always the same. I don't know what to do anymore!
The rewrite rules are inside an .htaccess, placed in the document root (together with handler.php), and I'm running xampp on an Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit machine.
Thanks in advance!