mod_rewrite and GoDaddy

I really have only a fair idea of what I am doing. Sorry.

This is what I did to rewrite URLs like these:

http://example.com/foo/bar/news/1-category-name/2-item-name

http://example.com/foo/bar/news/1-category-name

into these:

http://example.com/foo/bar/news.php?newsID=2

http://example.com/foo/bar/news-categories.php?categID=1

respectively

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteBase /foo/bar

  RewriteRule ^news\/([^\/]+)/([0-9]+)-([^\/]+)$   news.php?newsID=$3

  RewriteRule ^news\/([0-9]+)-([^\/]+)$            news-categories.php?categID=$1

</IfModule>

But whenever I try this URL:

http://example.com/foo/bar/news/16-news-category-1/11-title

It always returns a 404 error:

The requested URL /foo/bar/news.html/16-news-category-1/11-title was not found on this server

Why is it trying to find news.html ? What am I doing wrong?

I don't know if this is relevant but example.com is virtual (I really don't know the term). The actual files can also be accessed via http://real-domain.com/qux/ . So you'd do http://real-domain.com/qux/foo/bar/news/1-category-name/2-item-name to get to 2-item-name .

Does it also help to say that this script actually runs on my development machine?

Development:

   PHP v5.3.5

   Apache v2.2



Live:

   PHP v5.3.6

   Apache v2.2

Source: Tips4all