how to write a .htaccess redirect like stackoverflow does for its questions

Question

I\'m trying to write a .htaccess rule that would redirect someone asking for

http://mysite.com/questions/123/my-question-name

to

http://mysite         


        

Answer 1

I would do something like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^questions/([0-9]+)/?$ questions/question_handler.php?qid=$1 [NC,L]

Answer 2

RewriteRule ^http://([^/]*)/questions/(\d+)/(.*)$ http://$1/questions/question_handler.php?qid=$2

Your (.*) was probably too greedy so it was using http://mysite.com/questions/123/my-question-name as the first group matched