htaccess problems - Passing a "/"

[Jeff-DBA]

I am trying to pass the url: categories/examplecategories.php?category=$1

using: categories/drinkcategories/(.*).html$

However, the variable that I am passing has a "/" in it. So, lets say I am passing the category AC/DC. When it is urlencoded it looks like..AC+/+DC.

Using (.*) isn't passing the "/" because it thinks that I am opening a new folder and cuts off the DC part, which results in Epic Fail.

Anyone know how to use Regex and .htaccess to pass this "/" through my $_GET variable and change my pages?

Cheers

 

[Stanley]

I'm too tired to figure out what exactly you are trying to do but something tells me you just need to catch both like so:

categories/(.*)/(.*).html$ -> categories/whatever.php?category=$1.$2

Remember you can have more than one rewrite rule, one for each setup.

 

[AffiliateAlex]

(.*) works for me as long as no other rule fucks with it...

 

[Jeff-DBA]

(.*) allows for any character. I was under that impression too, but it won't pass the "/" character.

 

[alphiebeta]

If you haven't solved this yet, use rawurlencode() to encode the query string and rawurldecode() on the other side. Converts all non alphanumeric characters to entities.