Modrewrite/htaccess question

[BlueWaveMedia]

Sorry this is kinda offtopic... hopefully someone can help.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*) /articles.php?ID=$1
RewriteRule ^articles/ /articleslist.php


What's wrong with that? I know the rules are conflicting because of them both pointing to articles/... but that may not be the problem. The articleslist.php displays the news articles in a abreviated list, where as articles.php (with its corresponding uniquely pulled id) is the individual page for that article. Any ideas? thanks guys..

[jason]

The first definition is firing when you wnat the second one to. Basically, what you are saying is "match the literal string 'articles/' followed by anything." Since articleslist.php fits the definition of "anything," mod_rewrite is converting it to /articles.php?ID=articleslist.php (most likely).

Try reversing the order for the two definitions. Also, adding a [L] to teh end of the articleslist.php rule (stands for last) so that it will stop trying to match other rules after that one. If nothing else, it will help speed up your page loads a bit. You'll probably also need an [QSA, L] at the end of the artiles.php rule. QSA stands for Query String Append and tells mod_rewrite to look for and parse a querystring on the rewritten URL.

Here's what you should have when you're done:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^articles/ /articleslist.php [L]
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*) /articles.php?ID=$1 [QSA, L]

--Jason