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[Zugzwangle]

Hi,

 

I have a website and I want to use 'RewriteRule' to redirect. The "htaccess" file, will be located in the /profile/ folder.. for example http://www.mySite.net/profile/newLoc

 

I want to find the word after "profile/", so in the example above, I want it to find "newLoc", then it needs to redirect to http://www.mySite.net/profile.php?profile=newLoc

 

When at http://www.mySite.net/profile.php?profile=newLoc for example, I want it to show only http://www.mySite.net/profile/newLoc

 

I have found a match for the whole website address:

http\:/\/\www\.mySite\.net\/profile\/+(\w+)

However I only need to capture the word after "profile/"..

How do I ammend my code to search for that?

 

And when the user's arrive at http://www.mySite.net/profile.php?profile=newLoc, I want it to display only http://www.mySite.net/profile/newLoc

 

Any help would be glady appreciated.

[JasonLewis]

Place your .htaccess file in your root directory, so /public_html/

Then, try using this:

 

RewriteRule ^profile/(.*)$ profile.php?proflie=$1 [L]

[Zugzwangle]

thanks

[cags]

There is no reason you can't locate the .htaccess file within the profile folder. You just have to bare in mind that you no longer need to match the profile section as this will have been stripped off the URL you are comparing.

[JasonLewis]

There is no reason you can't locate the .htaccess file within the profile folder. You just have to bare in mind that you no longer need to match the profile section as this will have been stripped off the URL you are comparing.

 

For organization, wouldn't it be best to place it in the root folder though?

[cags]

That's a matter of opinion. Since it only applies to the content of that folder, why would placing it in the root folder make any more organisation sense? From a pure ease of use standpoint, keeping your rules all together may make sense, as I say, it's a matter of opinion. For performance reason it should probably be placed within a conf file.

[Zugzwangle]

Well, I'll let you big boys fight it out then   I put it in the root directory, not because I felt one of you is right - but because thats what I was told to do first.

 

Thanks for all your comments

[newbtophp]

That's a matter of opinion. Since it only applies to the content of that folder, why would placing it in the root folder make any more organisation sense? From a pure ease of use standpoint, keeping your rules all together may make sense, as I say, it's a matter of opinion. For performance reason it should probably be placed within a conf file.

 

Hi Cags,

 

Can you ellaborate about the conf file? (ie. example would be nice) 

 

Cheers

[JasonLewis]

That's a matter of opinion. Since it only applies to the content of that folder, why would placing it in the root folder make any more organisation sense? From a pure ease of use standpoint, keeping your rules all together may make sense, as I say, it's a matter of opinion. For performance reason it should probably be placed within a conf file.

 

Point taken.

 

Can you ellaborate about the conf file? (ie. example would be nice) 

 

Conf file as in the Apache httpd.conf file. You can place your rules in here, if you have access to it. It's done the same way as in a .htaccess file except it needs to be in the <Directory></Directory> tags. Here's a quick example:

 

<Directory /path/to/public_html>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/some/rewrite/rule$ index.php [L]
</Directory>

 

So if you accessed www.yourwebsite.com/some/rewrite/rule it would show the index.php file.