mod_rewrite RewriteCond match root directory + file name

Question

I am having trouble converting the following links

http://example.com/test              

to

http://example.com/pages.php?p=test

but then not convert the following links

http://example.com/foo/test (http://example.com/foo/pages.php?p=test)
http://example.com/bar/test (http://example.com/bar/pages.php?p=test)

My current setup is this:

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$1$
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ pages.php?p=$1 [NC,L]

I am seeming to have trouble with the last RewriteCond (RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$1$) not seeming to detect the URL change. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To convert /test to /pages.php?p=test you can use the following rule:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ /pages.php?p=$1 [NC,L]