[mod_rewrite woes]

Xanga seems to be doing it the way that I wrote... if the file or directory doesn\'t exist, rewrite it to home.asp?user=blah

[mod_rewrite woes]

That seems very insecure and error-prone.... why not just go with the /~username setup? Worked for everyone for years and is close to being foolproof

[mod_rewrite woes]

This is a tricky one... how do you tell if the request is invalid or is for a user or is for a regular file?

 

for example... you have a user \"john\".... this would make the request

 

http://www.blah.com/john

 

valid from the logical point of view... however, to Apache that request and

 

http://www.blah.com/no-such-user

and

http://www.blah.com/index.html

 

will look exactly the same... so while I did set up a mod_rewrite that\'ll do what you want, it doesn\'t seem very useful because apache will rewrite EVERY REQUEST that\'s 404 to view.php?user

 

Best that you can do is something like

 

http://www.blah.com/~validuser

 

That way you can either use apache\'s mod_userdir or set up a simple mod_rewrite rule to forward those users

 

Now, for reference....

This is the answer to your original question...maybe you can improve on it

RewriteEngine ON

RewriteCond  /your/docroot/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond  /your/docroot/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^/(.*) /view.php?user=$1

 

This is what can forward /~user

RewriteEngine ON                                                                                                    

RewriteRule ^/~(.*) /view.php?user=$1

 

Hope this helped!

[[Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: in ...]]

either that or you forgot to compile MySQL support into PHP

[Help - My PHP update form won't update my MySQL database]

remove the error supression (@) in front of the myslq_query and see if mysql spits up some kind of an error message.

[mod_rewrite woes]

This is an interesting problem... let me get off work and get to an Apache server I\'m not afraid to break :-) I\'ll work on it then

[mailing lists under Apache]

If you\'re not an experienced developer and need mailing lists FAST, I suggest looking at something like MajorDomo or other opensource mailing lists. I\'m sure www.sourceforge.net has something of that sort

[mod_rewrite woes]

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond ! http://boo.com/%{REQUEST_URI} -U

RewriteRule http://boo.com/(.*) http://boo.com/view.php?user=$1

 

Just a wild guess, but it might work