Re: mod_rewrite fun

Robby Russell wrote:
> http://mydomain.com/level1/level2/level3/
> 
> RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$
> index.php?level1=$1&level2=$2&level3=$level3
> 
> I can get it to work at if I have all 3, but if I only go to:
> http://mydomain.com/level1/  it doesn't work. How can I make this be
> flexible? If it's only one // deep, then go to level1=$1 ///
> level1=$1&level2=$2, etc...

Probably the easiest thing would be to stack several patterns 
corresponding to different numbers of "directory" levels, longest first. 
  First pattern to match wins.

There may also be a solution that involves testing for the existence of 
backrefs, but I doubt it would be as clean.

HTH,

Dylan