mod rewrite issues with php

Question

These should be a relatively easy task but I am having some serious issues with my muddled head on a friday. I have:

http://www.xxxxx.com/search.php?sch=city&val=London

and am trying to get:

http://www.xxxxx.com/search/city/London

Currently the following is not working:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /search.php?sch=$1&val=$2 [L]

Answer 1

How about

RewriteRule ^/search/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /search.php?sch=$1&val=$2 [L]

Also don't forget you can debug the rewriting with RewriteLog.