.htaccess help

[Jnerocorp]

Well i have this in my .htaccess,

 

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?user=$1 [L]

 

it works but i get a blank page because of some problem i dont know how to fix it if i take out the .htaccess and i write index.php?view=artist&option=com_profile&name=username it works.

 

 

basicly what i want to do is that the actual route to a file now is,

http://www.soundzet.com/artist/index.php?user=freakadilly

 

i want it to be just

http://www.soundzet.com/freakadilly

 

please and thank you for the help

 

-John

[canadabeeau]

okay I have my urls like http://yoursite.com/contact instead of http://yoursite.com/?uri=contact or http://yoursite.com/index.php?uri=contact

 

this is my mod_rewrite

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?uri=$1/$2/$3
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?uri=$1/$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?uri=$1

 

because I rewrite from "folders" (the site is DB driven hence "folders")

 

But I am unsure if you can remove "/artist/" completely you may have to settle for "/artist/freakadilly"