Pagination and htaccess

[JamesBuckland]

I added a <BASE href="/"> tag to the layout.html.php of my template to enable it to interact correctly with my included header and footer from the main website (htmly is stored at /news). The issue is that the pagination now points to http://example.com/?page=1 and even if I manually type /news/?page=2 it still returns the results for the first page. Is there a way to modify the htaccess file to accept /news/page/2 and pass the GET variable that way?

I tried the following rules with no luck:
RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

[danpros]

We must change the core to accept that /news/page/2 (htmly.php). I will close this one. Let see if this can be implemented into HTMLy in the future. Thanks.