htaccess RewriteRule

[kameyer026]

Currently, I have a script that uses RewriteRule in my htaccess file. It is:

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

This rule only works for a path such as:
http://www.mysite.com/473829/

which redirects to:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?go=473829

What I'm trying to do is create a rule that does not require the last forward slash. That is:

http://www.mysite.com/473829
that should redirect to:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?go=473829

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You!

[felgall]

Without the slash it would be

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

[kameyer026]

Thank you, but I seem to be getting a 500 Internal Server Error. Does this make sense?

[felgall]

Possibly because now that you are accepting anything the rewritten version also meets the criteria and so gets processed again and again and again until it realises that it can't produce a final result.

You need something in the content that is to be converted that will not be in the result so that the conversion knows when to stop.