HTACCESS RewriteRule problem

[darmar]

I need some more help....

I can't get to "reuse" variables I'm passing through....

here's my example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z]{5}$ /test.php?myvar=%1 [R=301,L]

(yes, I'm trying to redirect all "www.example.com/abcde" calls to a specific PHP script, with that "abcde" pass as variable)

with this, I get redirected to: "test.php?myvar=" and no value for this variable "myvar"....

I also tried using "$" instead of "%" in RewriteRule statement - but I get the same....

could anybody post a working example of passing variables to script you're redirecting with RewriteRule ?


thank you



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here's the solution for my latest problem:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]{5})$ /test.php?myvar=$1 [R=301,L]

I forgot to use ( ) and I should use $ instead if %

[darmar]

here's a nice simple tutorial I wrote:
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