httaccess allowing dots in URL?

[therocker]

Hello, is it possible to allow dots inside your .htaccess?

 

So like in the URL it would look something like.

 

http://domain.com/the.rocker instead of http://domain.com/therocker

 

 

Here is my code.

RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ userprofile.php?username=$1

[Ch0cu3r]

Yes add \. into the square brackets

RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+)$ userprofile.php?username=$1

[therocker]

 

Yes add \. into the square brackets

RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+)$ userprofile.php?username=$1

Thanks for the help, but I've tried that before. It just makes the userprofile page go unavaliable.

My userprofile page is custom made by me. What I do is use a $_GET to get the username in the URL. Then put it in a query and see if the username exsists in a seo tabel. If so then allow the profile to be displayed. If not then echo out "Profile unavaliable". So that being said, When I change my Rewrite to the Rewrite you provided, it makes the page go "Profile unavaliable"

[Zane]

You need to make sure that $_GET['username'] contains exactly what you're looking for before you query the database.
echo it out, alert it, whatever you feel like doing.

 

Also, it might not hurt to add the word 'username' or 'user' or the letter u in front of the usernames... for instance

 

RewriteRule ^u/([-a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+)$ userprofile.php?username=$1

 

That should match http://domain.com/u/the.rocker

Edited December 9, 2013 by Zane

[therocker]

Here is what I've got.

This is the URL that I'm going to be using.

 

This is my database record.

 

This is my code.

 

And this is the .htaccess I tried to use.

[Ch0cu3r]

Change your .htaccess rewriteRule to

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ([a-z0-9_\.-]+)/? userprofile.php?username=$1 [L,NC]

Then in userprofile.php add

printf('<pre>%s</pre>', print_r($_GET, true));

To make sure the $_GET['username'] is being set correctly

Edited December 9, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[therocker]

Change your .htaccess rewriteRule to

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ([a-z0-9_\.-]+)/? userprofile.php?username=$1 [L,NC]

Then in userprofile.php add

printf('<pre>%s</pre>', print_r($_GET, true));

To make sure the $_GET['username'] is being set correctly

Thanks. That did it. Thank you very much.