.htaccess Question And A Folder?

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to account for a folder in my htaccess. Meaning I want my URLS like below

mydomain.com/dealers/florida/key_west

My question is, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong in my below syntax. How would I accurately account for the "dealers" folder?

Below is my syntax. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^dealers/([_a-zA-Z]+)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^dealers/([_a-zA-Z]+)/([_a-zA-Z]+)$ city.php?state=$1&city=$2 [L]

Code (markup):

 

$state.php

$city.php

you had spaces there. cannot have spaces in a url string.