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[completesite]

OK. I googled. I yahooed. I read the stupid RewriteEngine manual. but I just can't get this to work.
What I want is a rule that is like the following, but won't break when you forget the slash in the URL:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ \?page=$1

With the above code, I can type in "http://mysite.com/funpage/" and it is the same as "http://mysite.com/?page=funpage" but if I accidentally forget the slash at the end of the url, the server returns a 404 page.
I tried the below code but it returns a 500 page:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \?page=$1

I would like it if it could work either way--with or withour the trailing slash.
Any help is appreciated

[Chris]

Simple, in the regex make it optional with a ?

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ \?page=$1

[completesite]

I tried that but it still returns a 500 server error no mater what url format I try.
Thanks for your help anyways.

[X-Tech]

Did you try CHMODing? I get the 500 error when I dont CHMOD my perl scripts. (755)

[Chris]

Did you try CHMODing? I get the 500 error when I dont CHMOD my perl scripts. (755)

A 500 error on perl scripts would be completely and totally unrelated to a .htaccess 500.  A 500 as a result of changes in .htaccess indicates an error with the rules.

[completesite]

Well I've been trying all sorts of things but to no avail. I know there has to a way though. help is appreciated.

[codefather]

Try

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RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ \?page=$1