Simple ModRewrite Help Needed

I'm trying to rewrite domain.com/index.php?section=whatever and domain.com/index.php?section=whatever&page=whatever and I'm running into a snafu.

Here's my htaccess:
Code:

Order deny,allow
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^section/(.+) /index.php?section=$1 [nc]
RewriteRule ^section/(.*)/page/(.*) /index.php?section=$1&page=$2 [nc]

Code (markup):

The first rewrite works, but if there is a trailing slash, it gets put in the variable whenever I do a _GET. The second one doesn't seem to work at all. Also, I don't know that I want (.*). Maybe it'd be safer with just any numbers, letters, and underscores.

Thoughts?

 

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^section/([^.]+)/page/([^.]+)$ index.php?section=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^section/([^.]+)$ index.php?section=$1 [L]

 

Try this. It is optimized for stupid Apaches

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# only non www version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?section=$1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z_\-]+)/([A-Za-z_\-]+) index.php?section=$1&page=$2
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

 

Thanks. That worked great. Now, if I wanted to remove section and page from the string so that it's domain.com/whatevera/whateverb, how would I do that?

 

Ok, so some of this works and some doesn't Here's what I have:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?section=$1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?section=$1&page=$2
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

The problem I have now is that the last rewrite isn't working right.

I want domain.com/index.php?section=foo&page=bar to be domain.com/foo/bar.

Right now, it's basically telling me that section=foo/bar and isn't giving the page var a value. That make sense?

 

I think you have the last line wrong.
How about this?

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)$ index.php?section=$1&page=$2

Code (markup):