mod_rewrite situation - should be easy!

Currently I have my htaccess file setup like the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

This allows me to do http://mydomain.com/index and have that reference to index.php?page=index

I want to be able to add an admin URL in there, I assumed I could change the htaccess file to look like the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ admin.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

However, when I go to http://mydomain.com/admin/index - I would assume that it would reference admin.php?page=index - That doesnt seem to be the case, instead it just goes to my index.php and screws up the relative links...

Any suggestions on how to create the admin rule?

 

([^.]+)

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^admin/([^.]+)$ admin.php?page=$1 [L]

 

Should I just change my RewriteRules to that, or should I also remove the RewriteConds?

 

You can just repalce those two lines. I rarly ever use

RewriteCond

I always start with

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

with RewriteBase being the directory of .htaccess location.