Using mod_rewrite and PHP

So I'm trying to implement a URL system like so: http://domain.org/issues/2003/feb/article-name/ such that http://domain.org/issues/index.php will display the requested page. I've read a little about this (http://www.alistapart.com/stories/succeed/) and have gotten it to work for the most part, but there's one problem I'd like to resolve. Here's how I've got it set up: - I put a .htaccess file in http://domain.org/issues like so: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$ index.php - /issues/index.php contains code to respond to REQUEST_URI and serve content appropriately. - Requests to /issues/ should serve an index sort of page, which works fine. However, if a request is made to /issues (no trailing slash), the browser is sent an Error 400 Bad Request. I tried the following after looking at the URL Rewriting Guide (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html): RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /issues/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1/ [R] Unfortunately, with this in place the browser displays a 302 Found message with a link to the same problematic URL (/issues). I'm still pretty new to mod_rewrite, so please bear with me if I'm doing something obviously wrong here. Thanks, -Dan