Regex Routing - rule not being found - zend-framework

Question

I'm defining regex routes for cleaning up my URLS. The idea is that all pages added by the user will be use the URL www.example.com/page-slug rather than using the actual controller, www.example.com/userpages/page-slug. Other pages will follow the standard module:controller:action routing scheme.
I'm trying to aceive this using router precedence.
I have defined the scheme below..
class Default_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap{
protected function _initRoute() {
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $front->getRouter(); // returns a rewrite router by default
$route['index'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'/',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'index',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$route['contact'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'contact/(\d+)',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'contact',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$route['research'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'research/(\d+)',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'research',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$route['account'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'account/(\d+)',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'account',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$route['userpages'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'/(.+)',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'userpages',
'action' => 'index'
),
array(
'slug' => 1
),
'%s'
);
$router->addRoute('userpages', $route['userpages']);
$router->addRoute('contact', $route['contact']);
$router->addRoute('research', $route['research']);
$router->addRoute('account', $route['account']);
$router->addRoute('index', $route['index']);
}
}
Things are generally working OK with the router precedence ensuring that index/account/research/contact pages are picking up the correct controller. However, when attempting to go to a URL covered by the "userpages" route e.g. "about-us", final catch all route is not being found resulting in...
Message: Invalid controller specified (about-us)
.
.
.
Request Parameters:
array (
'controller' => 'about-us',
'action' => 'index',
'module' => 'default',
)
Any idea where I'm going wrong here? It seems to me that the regex is correct "/(.+)" should be catching eveything that is not the index page.
EDIT: #phatfingers, OK you're right, I've edited "\d+" to ".+" to catch one or more of any character. The problem persists. In fact before changing the regex, I tried the URL www.example.com/52, and got the same error - "Invalid controller specified (52)". After the change - with code as per the edited snippet above, the rule is still failing to find any matches.

Answer 1

Drop the forward slash in the 'userpages' regex, i.e. just ('.+)
The quote is straight from the manual Zend Router and Router_Regex but afaik it also applies to all the routes.
Note: Leading and trailing slashes are trimmed from the URL in the
Router prior to a match. As a result, matching the URL
http://domain.com/foo/bar/, would involve a regex of foo/bar, and not
/foo/bar.