Apache URL Rewrite to domain.com/custom_url_name

Question

Using Apache on a Red Hat server, I'm trying to rewrite the URL of a member's store on our website from:

domain.com/store.php?url=12345

to:

domain.com/12345

Using these rules, I can get it to work if I always remember to add an ending slash:

Options -Indexes 
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^store/url/(.*)$ store.php?url=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ store.php?url=$1

domain.com/12345/ works, but domain.com/12345 does not work.

Removing the slash in the last line of Rewrite code breaks a lot of stuff. Is there a way to get this to work both with or without that ending slash?

Answer 1

What if you made the slash optional? Furthermore, you probably to to specify something more specific than (.*), because domain.com/a/b/c/d/e will match. Instead, you can use a negated character class to specify everything other than a slash.

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ store.php?url=$1

Alternately, if you only want to capture numbers, you can use the \d shorthand class (which matches any digit) along with a + which specifies that at least one digit must be present:

RewriteRule ^(\d+)/?$ store.php?url=$1

Answer 2

Your attempt using ^(.*)$ fails because that would match any URL path. Use a more specific pattern than .*, maybe \d+ to allow only one or more digits:

RewriteRule ^(\d+)$ store.php?url=$1