htaccess advice - how do I write this rule?

Question

I'm not going to lie. I suck at writing htaccess rules. I'm ok with regexes though.

Ok, basically, user enters url: www.site.com/page.id or www.site.com/folder/page.id

That should be internally written to: www.site.com/index.php?page=id

I've got the stuff sorted in the index.php, but I just can't seem to hack it with the htaccess.

What do you suggest it should be?

EDIT: business/legal/service-level-agreement.10 and services.5 would need to work, so the rule would need to get the digit after the dot, period.

Answer 1

The simplest way would be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

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Answer 2

Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)?([^/]+)\.(\d+)$ index.php?$2=$3