mysite.com/username -- How to redirect to profile using htaccess file ??

[dilum]

 

i have built a web site. that is a normal members register web site. so i want to give to member URL like this  www.mysite.com/username.

 

Example if some one type www.mysite.com/username so i want to display his profile with that same URL. like http://www.myspace.com/some_username

 

i think this one has to be solve in htaccess.  i tried lot of time but still i could not find a solution. so i want a help what i have to put to htaccess file and how i can read that from a PHP page (index.php)

Thank you. 

[aschk]

In htaccess you would have something like this :

 

RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z]*$ get_user.php?username=$1

 

The only problem with this is that it will rewrite ALL your urls to be like that.

[dilum]

 

First thanks for your reply

 

I tried it just now. When i visit the page it's giving Internal Server Error.

May i ask? i put only code line that you gave. i did that one. Am i correct?

 

 

 

[Dragen]

add this just above it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

[aschk]

It depends, what URL did you go to?

Do you have a file called get_user.php ?

[Dragen]

It depends, what URL did you go to?

Do you have a file called get_user.php ?

I think if the file didn't exist he'd just get a 404 not found error

[dilum]

Thanks for all the reply.

 

But still i have some problem.

 

I added these lines to htaccess file

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z]*$ http://mydomain.com/index.php?username=$1

 

When I type "http://mydomain.com/smith"  Iit redirect to the index page.

This is the URL http://mydomain.com/index.php?username=

But I need that name also (smith) get details for that user. But in that URL passing only  username=

 

So can you help me how to get that name also to a variable?

 

Already i have declare a variable called $username = $_REQUEST['username'];

 

Thanks.

 

[Dragen]

the code you've got in the .htaccess should make the url like this:

http://mydomain.com/index.php?username=smith

 

then just use

$username = $_GET['username'];

[thebadbad]

You all are missing a pair of round brackets here:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]*)$ http://mydomain.com/index.php?username=$1

 

$1 refers to the first pair of round brackets, $2 to the second etc.

 

.. forget what was here, my mistake ..

[aschk]

Haha, whoops, my fault.

Although shouldn't it be : ^([a-zA-Z]*)$

[thebadbad]

We all make faults, eh?  Corrected.