Simple, Url Re-Writing Problem

[Eritrea]

I have a page something like: www.site.com/ref.php/index.php?user=John

 

 

I need the above to be changed, to www.site.com/ref.php/john

 

I have .htaccess file in the root directory and inside it, there is this code:

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /url/index.php?username=$1

 

 

But when I browse the page: www.site.com/ref.php/john it is giving me a 404 error

 

it must be a simple mistake, because I totally know nothing about url re-writing.

 

thanks for the help

[requinix]

Is ref.php a PHP script or a directory?

[Eritrea]

ref.php is a dispacher, file, it has included files inside it, for example, if ref.php?user is the case, the the GET function, gets user id and outputts data from mysql

[Christian F.]

To use the above you don't need .htaccess, all you need is in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] (and $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).

 

You might also want to use my snippet to clean PHP_SELF from the stuff from REQUEST_URI, as the latter can be used for XSS injections.