Need help with this rewrite rule

Hi,

1. My phpmyadmin program (a program that manages my MySql database) is located, by default, in http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. However, I have a rewrite rule (mostly put together with the help of freebsd and jizzaz..thanks!) in my httpd.conf file that goes something like this:

<Directory "/apache/htdocs">
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index\.php.*
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [L]
# If the URL is http://localhost/phpinfo/ then bring up phpinfo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpinfo$
RewriteRule ^(.+) phpinfo.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?request=$1 [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php?request=$1 [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
</Directory>

So now I can structue my URL's as such...

Ex. http://localhost/Category/Group/Product/etc... (No big deal...it's only been discussed here 100 times)

2. PROBLEM. When I go to my phpmyadmin program it won't load since it thinks that the "Category == phpmyadmin" So I put this in my in my ReWrite Rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmyadmin
RewriteRule ^(.+) /phpmyadmin [L]

Saying if it ever came across a URL like http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ then forget the rest of the Rewrite rules and just go to /phpmyadmin. However, this does not work(conversly, when I go to http://localhost/phpinfo/ it does work). Does anyone know why and can they help me?

Thanks alot!

Piet

You need to put this rules first (higher priority):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmyadmin.*
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [L]

Thanks again freebsd!