I Need Some Help And Have A Few Questions Rewriting URLS!

[designer76]

Hi,

The code at the bottom of this post works perfectly except for one thing. I want to be able to either add a trailing slash or make it so that the url can work with a trailing slash and without one. So: www.mysite.com/paintings and www.mysite.com/paintings/ would both work. As it stands right now, the trailing slash does not work no matter what I do. I have tried a few rewrite scripts that I have found, but the issue is that my url ends up not working, and it will read like: mysite.com/folder/mysite/html/paintings.php. The scripts that I have tried are basically reading the entire root folder on the server instead of just the HTML folder.

My second question is is there a way that I can rewrite all of the urls on my site without having to create new code inside the .htaccess file? For example, in the code below, if I add an orange.php page inside of my acrylics folder, I am going to have to paste:

RewriteRule ^artwork/([paintings]+)/([a-z]+)/([0-9]+) paintings/acrylics/orange.php?page=$3 [L]  
RewriteRule ^artwork/([paintings]+)/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+) paintings/acrylics/orange.php?page=viewall [L]

into the .htaccess file, and so on, as I add new pages. That just seems like the wrong way to go about things, and the .htaccess file can get large fairly quickly if I have lots of pages.

Any help given is much appreciated. Thank you!

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.xml -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.xml

RewriteRule ^designs/([0-9]+) designs.php?page=$1 [L]   
RewriteRule ^designs/([a-z]+) designs.php?page=viewall [L]

RewriteRule ^paintings/([0-9]+) paintings.php?page=$1 [L]   
RewriteRule ^paintings/([a-z]+) paintings.php?page=viewall [L]

RewriteRule ^artwork/([paintings]+)/([a-z]+)/([0-9]+) paintings/acrylics/blue.php?page=$3 [L]  
RewriteRule ^artwork/([paintings]+)/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+) paintings/acrylics/blue.php?page=viewall [L]

RewriteRule ^artwork/([women]+)/([a-z]+)/([0-9]+) artwork/oils/red.php?page=$3 [L]  
RewriteRule ^artwork/([women]+)/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+) artwork/oils/red.php?page=viewall [L]

[designer76]

If this is any help, I found this code below that fixes most of my problems except for two issues.

1. I do not want the trailing slash to effect my search page at all, because it is causing problems.

2. I can not get it to work correctly with my paging. For example: both mysite.com/acrylics/viewall/ and mysite.com/acrylics/viewall (no trailing slash) worked with the mod_rewrite I posted above, but now it doesn't. I get an error saying that viewall.php does not exist. It seems like I may be close, but I just need some help to get this working properly. Can anyone assist?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])/$ $1.php [L]

# Forces a trailing slash to be added
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

[designer76]

Is anyone able to help with this?