htaccess help - hiding ?username=

[slj90]

There are 2 parts to my question.

 

Firstly, To view a users profile on my site you can type this:

 

www.website.com/username

 

I now want to do the same thing with the gallery page. Like this:

 

www.website.com/gallery/username

 

My question is, do I need to put the gallery.php page in a folder called 'gallery' or do I just need to have the gallery.php page in the htdocs main folder?

 

 

 

My .htaccess currently reads

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profile.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profile.php?username=$1

What do I need to add to it so that gallery works too?

 

Thanks

[requinix]

You can put gallery.php anywhere you want. In the main folder makes the most sense.

 

I'm making a couple changes:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ gallery.php?username=$1 [L]

1. Note the two (pairs of) RewriteConds: they make sure that you don't accidentally rewrite from an existing file or (more likely) directory.

2. Most of the time you should use the [L] flag so that when one rewriting rule matches it will stop processing the rest of the rules and immediately go with the new URL you told it to use.

 

And a suggestion: decide whether you want to officially have trailing slashes or not - don't do both. You can still redirect from one to the other, of course.

Something like

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]

should be able to handle redirecting away from a trailing slash for pretty much anything you have. Directories still need the trailing slash so those aren't affected.