Apache mod_rewrite not treating a rewritten url?

Question

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/settings.php$ /settings.php?session=$1
RewriteRule ^/register/(.*)/(.*) /register/$2?session=$1

I'm putting the session in the url but it's not working. It tries to treat the session as a file:

[Mon Apr 16 17:37:05 2012] [error] File does not exist: /home/delta/public_html/register/D7yuzHOn3gx

What is wrong with this?

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Change your rules to:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/settings\.php$ settings.php?session=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^register/([^/]*)/(.*) register/$2?session=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

And remember RewriteRule start matching after first slash / .