Please help mod_rewrite not passing arguments

Hi I have the following in my .htaccess file

Yet the arguments do not seem to work. My webservice just says please specify a method which means that the m parameter is not set.

Any suggestions this is driving me insane

 

I think ^geors is the problem. What happens if you take out the '^'?

 

I have had issues with including the dash in the range of characters to match in the past. It may be worth a shot replacing:
([A-Za-z0-9-]+)
with
([A-Za-z0-9]|-)+

 

Hi tried both those things and it hasn't helped.

It is definitely matching but the arguments don't seen to be being passed.

I was simply copying from the http://http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/

It may help if I explain exactly what I am trying to do. I am doing a project at uni creating a web service for geocoding items in RSS feeds, it is written in object orientated php and is accessed through robs.homeftp.net/georss.php .
This can take a large number of arguments mostly for debugging and so when I have to demo it I can show my supervisor how it works.

Currently it is accessed like the following
http://robs.homeftp.net/georss.php?m=m&ch=NWS&noWords=2000&noSurnames=90000&url=http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss.xml

but I want to make this much nicer as for users of the service (once it is finished) will only need to specify the url.

So any suggestions are welcome. I have just realised when writing this that the url will never match as it also contains slashes.

 

Post an original URL, and how you want it.

 

Original URL

http://robs.homeftp.net/georss.php?m=m&ch=NWS&noWords=2000&noSurnames=90000&url=http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss.xml

How I "think" I want it

http://robs.homeftp.net/georss/http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss.xml

or maybe

http://robs.homeftp.net/georss-http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss.xml

something like that

 

Only way to get that URL is if the shorter URL
http://robs.homeftp.net/georss.php?...ewsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss.xml
would also work, and your sites down right now.

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^m/([^.]+)/ch/([^.]+)/noWords/([^.]+)/noSurnames/([^.]+)/url/([^.]+)\.html$ georss.php?m=$1&ch=$2&noWords=$3&noSurnames=$4&url=$5 [L]
RewriteRule ^georss/([^.]+)\.html$ georss.php?url=$1 [L]

Second line is the code if the short URL does work, first RewriteRule line if it doesn't. You'll have to have the other stuff in the URL if it doesn't.

 

You could just hardcode those extra values into the second rewriterule there. But if you're going to do that, it's probably just as easy to alter the script to contain default values, which are replaced by values from the URL if set.

 

yeah in the end I altered some scripts that were relying on the current default values and made it so I just needed to call /?url=the.url.com

Thanks for your help