PHP - Moved: Rewriting Urls In Htaccess?

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I would like to better understand relative and absolute paths when rewriting URLs.  My virtual host configuration is shown below.

I wish the server to see something like:

https://example.com?page=page1&controller=controller1&data1=123&data2=321

Given the rewrites as shown in my virtual host, what would be the proper URL in the browser?  One of these (note the ? and &), or something different?

https://example.com/page1/controller1?data1=123&data2=321
https://example.com/page1/controller1&data1=123&data2=321

Next, if I enter one of the URLs, how do relative paths to images, etc work?  Would the browser think it is in the root directory, or in /page1/controller1?  I had problems with relative paths, and changed to absolute paths, and it fixed the problem, but I wish to better understand what is happening.   On a side note, I would appreciate any critique of my virtual host configuration.  My goal is for all requests to example.com to redirect to https://example.com, for only https://example.com (no subdomain) to redirect to https://www.example.com, and do the rewriting of page and controller.   Thank you

# Note that if a virtual ServerName is not found (i.e. IP 192.168.1.200), Apache defaults to first virtual host.
# Note that if ServerName is set to one of the virtual host ServerName's in the Second Section, it doesn't work (why?)

# Handle just example.com to http
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    Redirect / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

# Handle just example.com without subdomains
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    # ServerAlias example.com
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite SSLv3:TLSv1:+HIGH:!SSLv2:!MD5:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:!eNULL:!aNULL
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/example_key.pem
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/example_startssl.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem
    Redirect / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example/html

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite SSLv3:TLSv1:+HIGH:!SSLv2:!MD5:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:!eNULL:!aNULL
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/example_key.pem
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/example_startssl.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem

    <Directory "/var/www/example/html">

        allow from all
        Options +Indexes

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

            RewriteEngine On

            RewriteBase /

            # Are these lines necessary, or should I create a virtual host for http on port 80 instead?
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
            RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R,L]

            ## If the request is for a valid directory, file, or link, don't do anything
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
            RewriteRule ^ - [L]

            #remove the trailing slash
            RewriteRule (.+)/$ $1

            # If you add this first rule to support views, be sure to remove the QSA flag from the second rule (maybe not required since the first rule has the L flag)
            #replace mypage/mycontroller with index.php?page=mypage&controller=mycontroller
            RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1&controller=$2 [L,QSA]
            #replace mypage with index.php?page=mypage
            RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I'm currently runing an classifieds ads site, Php + Mysql (no frameworks) Basically i have the ads listing page (ads.php) and the ads details page (ad_detail.php) This is my current .htaccess:

# disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes

ErrorDocument 400 /error.php
ErrorDocument 401 /error.php
ErrorDocument 403 /error.php
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php
ErrorDocument 500 /error.php
ErrorDocument 502 /error.php
ErrorDocument 504 /error.php

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)-da([0-9]+)$ ad_detail.php?ad=$2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

The final result is something like this: www.mysite.com/this-is-the-ad-detail-da50555 (the number is the ad id)   What i need is to get this: www.mysite.com/ads/another-ad-detail-da50777 + What can i do in others urls to show like www.mysite.com/about/ instead of www.mysite.com/about (without the /)     I already tried this but doesn't work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule -da([0-9]+)/?$ ad_detail.php?ad=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]

Edited by asanti, 22 November 2014 - 05:16 PM.

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