HTACCESS directories redirect - php

Question

I'm trying to redirect the address
www.example.com/tops/articles/first_article
to the address
www.example.com/tops/test1.php?name=first_article
also to redirect the address
www.example.com/tops/galleries/first_gallery
to the address
www.example.com/tops/test2.php?name=first_gallery
and all other addresses like
www.example.com/tops/first_page
to
www.example.com/tops/page.php?name=first_page
The following htaccess file is giving me a redirect loop.
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^/tops/articles/(.+)$ /tops/test1.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/tops/galleries/(.+)$ /tops/test2.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*)$ ./page.php?name=$1
Doe's anyone has any idea why is that?
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Does page.php exist in the root directory (or any other non /tops/ directory for that matter)?
If not, then that is probably your problem. You should change your last rule to something like:
RewriteRule ^tops/(.*)$ /tops/page.php?name=$1

Answer 2

Well, I finally got it working.
Thought I share it so if anyone every search for this question he will find it.
Here is the code that workd:
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^articles/(.+)$ ./test1.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^galleries/(.+)$ ./test2.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*)$ ./page.php?name=$1 [L]
Enjoy !

Answer 3

You may try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^tops/articles/([a-zA-Z0-9-=_.]+)/?$ http://www.example.com/tops/test1.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tops/galleries/([a-zA-Z0-9-=_.]+)/?$ http://www.example.com/tops/test2.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tops/([a-zA-Z0-9-=_.]+)/?$ http://www.example.com/page.php?name=$1 [L]
Replace all 3 rules with these rules.
UPDATED for all characters:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^tops/articles/([^/]*)/?$ http://www.example.com/tops/test1.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tops/galleries/([^/]*)/?$ http://www.example.com/tops/test2.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tops/([^/]*)/?$ http://www.example.com/tops/page.php?name=$1 [L]
.htaccess should be in root directory If it is in /tops directory, try removing it from the pattern and the substitution URL.