Help with creating regular expression for mod_rewrite.

Question

I'm trying to create a mod rewrite rule to change the following "fake" address:

domain.com / directory / subdirectory / product-name /

to:

domain.com / directory / management.php ? variable = product-name

Obviously there are no spaces in the URL, I put them there so they would appear properly in the question without being truncated like a regular link.

I just don't quite get what the regular expression should be. Help would be appreciated--I'm banging my head against the keyboard here.

Answer 1

-----StartCode-----

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^directory/subdirectory/(.*)/$ /directory/management.php?variable=$1

-----CodeEnd-----

Above would redirect requests made for the fake url, to the real url.

The "$1" variable at the end simply contains the content of the parentes "(.*)", the dot "." means any character, and the star "*" means repeated 0 or more times.