mod_rewrite woes

[Crusader]

gah....

 

how can i do this?

 

I have a php page which calls on a specific variable

(http://boo.com/bah.php?user=username)

i want it to look like this though, http://boo.com/username

 

how would i do this?

 

i tried doing this:

RewriteEngine On  

RewriteRule ^/(.*)  /view.php?user=$1

 

but i had no success...

thanks for reading and or trying to help

[MAPA3M]

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

[Crusader]

err it gave me an internal server error thanks for trying though

[MAPA3M]

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

[Crusader]

ty

[MAPA3M]

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!

[Crusader]

thanks MAPA3M!

 

to solve this i was thinking of adding a query to the view page. im probably going to make it an else, so if it doesn\'t detect a user it will instead do a query through a list of files listed in the db, eg. if someone looked for forums it would fail the user query and else to find that there is a forum entry in the site table. if both queries failed it would then bring them to some other page. or so i hope lol. i\'ll post on how i(f) solve this.

 

thanks.

[MAPA3M]

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

[Crusader]

yea i think ill need to use that heh. any idea how xanga.com does it? check out http://xanga.com they\'re running on asp but i dont get how that would make much of a difference.

 

aghh.. finding the root to the subdomain is annoying... it does not want to cooperate with the sub lol

[MAPA3M]

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

[Crusader]

hmmm its not working for me...

 

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine ON 

RewriteCond  /home/virtual/site34/fst/var/subdomain/gc/html/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 

RewriteCond  /home/virtual/site34/fst/var/subdomain/gc/html/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 

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

 

im pretty sure i have the right root. could it not working have to do with it running on one of my subdomains?