Mod Rewrite Question

I've spent all afternoon and evening reading the literature on apache's rewrite module. Most tutorials are either too basic and most serious papers are too complex IMHO.

Question: Is the following possible at all?

For a new project I'd like to use the following URL structure:

w ww.domain.com/script/category/grandparent/parent/child (not sure on trailing slash here at the end)

and have it reconverted to:

w ww.domain.com/script.php?cat=category&grp=grandparent&par=parent&chi=child

What I've gathered over the last few hours is that it is quite easy yo have it like:

w ww.domain.com/script/cat/category/grp/grandparent/par/parent/chi/child

but that is not how I want it.
Is it possible at all to have it like I want where the rewrite rules basically says: the first dir calls the appropriate php script, the 2nd directory name will be the value of the variable $cat etc. etc.

Please let me know whether I should continue my research or just stop wanting it my way and rethink my strategy.

 

i too had a hard time when trying to accomplish this on one of my clients sites. we had a structure simular to yours.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/script/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)/ /script\.php?cat=%1&grp=%2&par=%3&chi=%4  [L]

Code (markup):

 

Excellent, I'll try it out!

Would it allow for empty child or parent variables?

Like if I want to display all links to available child variables when this page is requested?

w ww.domain.com/script/category/grandparent/parent/

Thanks very much though.