What's wrong with this MOD Rewrite Rule?

Question

# Tags
RewriteRule   ^tags/(\d+)/$ /tags/view/index.cfm\?tagURL=$1 [L]

the tag can be anything. What's wrong?

Answer 1

If you only like to allow digits as tags, you can use this:

RewriteRule   ^tags/([0-9]+)/$ /tags/view/index.cfm\?tagURL=$1 [L]

Otherwiese, your solution

RewriteRule   ^tags/(.*)/$ /tags/view/index.cfm\?tagURL=$1 [L]

is perfectly fine.