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Redirect "mydomain.com/user" to "mydomain.com/name.php?id=user"

Answer 1

A:

You probably want Apache's mod_rewrite.

Gian 2010-08-18 01:02:46

Answer 2

+1 A:

You can use mod_rewrite to transparently rewrite your URLs on the server.

Assuming that you'd only have usernames following your domain, something like this would do what you want:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .+ name.php?id=$0

Tim Stone 2010-08-18 01:04:59

You probably want to add `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d` as well, so directories aren't rewritten as well.

vonconrad 2010-08-18 01:10:31

@vonconrad you seem to know what you're talking about, and i'm completely new to editing .htaccess files... Which of these examples do you think would work better? Thanks for your help

RobHardgood 2010-08-18 01:12:58

@vonconrad - Yeah, I had excluded it for brevity, but without knowing the OP's scenario, it's probably safer to include it. I'll amend the ruleset.

Tim Stone 2010-08-18 01:14:09

@RobHardgood at this point, either will do fine ;)

Jonah Bron 2010-08-18 01:16:16

@RobHardgood As Jonah Bron said, at this point they're practically the same. Both will get the job done.

vonconrad 2010-08-18 01:18:56

I see they're looking pretty much teh same now, but in the last line i see a couple differences... [L] and (.+)/.+ and $1/$0can someone explain what those differences mean?

RobHardgood 2010-08-18 01:31:12

@RobHardgood - The test pattern will automatically capture the entire matched input in the backreference `$0`, whereas the `$1` backreference comes from the first capture (indicated by the parenthesis). The `L` flag indicates that this is the last rule to be executed for this ruleset (although it's a bit more complicated, see [my answer to this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482106/rewrite-problem-last-not-being-respected/3482267#3482267)), which is important if you have rules later on that would unintentionally match the result of this rewrite.

Tim Stone 2010-08-18 01:43:12

Ah, i see. One more thing, how would i write it when name.php is in another directory? Like example.com/names/name.phpThanks for everyone's help :D

RobHardgood 2010-08-18 02:02:42

@RobHardgood - If you want `/names/` in the URL, you can either drop `.htaccess` in the `/names` directory, or do `RewriteRule ^names/(.+)$ names/name.php?id=$1`. If not, do `RewriteRule .+ names/name.php?id=$0`

Tim Stone 2010-08-18 02:13:51

Ah, that's very simple. Thanks @Tim for your help

RobHardgood 2010-08-19 21:14:36

Answer 3

+1 A:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.+) users.php?user=$1 [L]

I think that will work.

The Apache mod_rewrite guide is here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Jonah Bron 2010-08-18 01:06:30

You don't need the tilde, since you're already instructing mod_rewrite to only apply the rule if the request isn't a real directory or file (see the two RewriteCond just above the RewriteRule).

vonconrad 2010-08-18 01:09:11

Oh yeah. I'm new at url rewriting :)

Jonah Bron 2010-08-18 01:10:48

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