Help with basic .htaccess mod_rewrite.

Question

I am currently interpreting sub-domain wild-cards with php and i would like to handle them with .htaccess, user profiles will be accessed at http://username.mysite.com/ (or for some people http://www.username.mysite.com/) which should use /main.php?action=profile

The hardest part of this is making /error/i+am+a+test+message or /files/iamatestfile.jpg go to &error=i+am+a+test+message or &files=iamatestfile.jpg

Thanks for any and all help!

Answer 1

Try:

 RewriteRule ^error/(.*) index.php?error=$1 [L]
 RewriteRule ^file/(.*) index.php?file=$1 [L]

... for the last two.

Answer 2

Try this:

# stop rewriting for the host names example.com and www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^error/(.*) index.php?error=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^file/(.*) index.php?file=$1 [L]