How to do this via mod_rewrite

Question

http://mydomain.com/bubba

goes to http://mydomain.com/myscript.php?name=bubba

But does not match anything with an extension on it (.php, .html, etc).

I've been working on this for the last several hours and I cannot see how to do it. Every piece of documentation I find specifically doesn't work.

I'm doing this on a shared host (1and1.com) with .htaccess

Answer 1

Rewrites every non-existant file to myscript.php?name=requested:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ myscript.php?name=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 2

Maybe you want RewriteCond -f, to check whether the file exists.

Answer 3

To only match things without a period:

^([^.]+)$ myscript.php?name=$1 [QSA,L]