Mod rewrite won't work with slashes in rewrite rules

Stack,

I have been pulling my hair out today and yesterday trying to figure out the issue I have with mod_rewrite.

I'm running an ubuntu lamp server and I've gotten mod_rewrite turned o开发者_如何学编程n and working for simple rewrites such as:

RewriteRule ^link([^/]*).html$ rewrite.php?link=$1 [L]

But whenever I try to rewrite urls to turn my dynamic urls into cleaner static looking urls IE:

random/5000/ to random.php?id=5000

mod rewrite fails to rewrite the variable. However if I create this following rule it works:

random5000.html to random.php?id=5000

It looks like mod rewrite is simply not accepting slashes in my rewrite rules.

Here is what my rewrite rule looks like.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^random/([0-9]+)$ random.php?id=$1

I haven't tested this but maybe your RewriteRule should look like this:

RewriteRule ^random/([0-9]+)/$ random.php?id=$1

(missing / at the end). Please add comment if it fails.