laravel 3 - (:any) route not working - laravel

Question

i am just starting to learn laravel. And found a small sample project from nettuts+ ( url shortner ). it works well but only problem i face is that (:any) route doesn't work.
Here are three routes i have in file.
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('home.index');
});
Route::post('/', function()
{
$url = Input::get('url');
// Validate the url
$v = Url::validate(array('url' => $url));
if ( $v !== true ) {
return Redirect::to('/')->with_errors($v->errors);
}
// If the url is already in the table, return it
$record = Url::where_url($url)->first();
if ( $record ) {
return View::make('home.result')
->with('shortened', $record->shortened);
}
// Otherwise, add a new row, and return the shortened url
$row = Url::create(array(
'url' => $url,
'shortened' => Url::get_unique_short_url()
));
// Create a results view, and present the short url to the user
if ( $row ) {
return View::make('home.result')->with('shortened', $row->shortened);
}
});
Route::get('(:any)', function($shortened)
{
// query the DB for the row with that short url
$row = Url::where_shortened($shortened)->first();
// if not found, redirect to home page
if ( is_null($row) ) return Redirect::to('/');
// Otherwise, fetch the URL, and redirect.
return Redirect::to($row->url);
});
first two routes work fine but third one never gets activated. it only works if i call it with index.php in url. Like /index.php/abc whereas it should work for /abc too. And fyi, i have removed index.php setting from application config file too.
Can you please help ho to fix it?

Answer 1

Change the route declaration from '(:any)'
Route::get('(:any)', function($shortened){ //... });
to ('/(:any)')
Route::get('/(:any)', function($shortened){ //... });