htaccess image url

Okay, so I currently have a php script set up to do something with an image. I call the script by saying:

http://eli-white.com/lastfm/index.png?user=thesavior01


I want to call it by saying:


http://eli-white.com/lastfm/thesavior01.png


How do i get about doing this?

If enabled, mod_rewrite

Something like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^http://eli-white.com/lastfm/index.png?user=(.*)$ http://eli-white.com/lastfm/$1\.png

shouldnt it be the other way around? what it is => what it translates to?

so if .htaccess is in the same folder as index.png it would be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.png index.png?user=$1

Probably. Give it a shot :)

Meh, its not working properly, somehow my script is getting "index" from the user variable. im pretty confident its not my script that is the problem.

Where's the dollar sign that indicates end line, slashes for directories...?
I'm not used to seeing these without that.
Did you intend to leave them out?

Let me make sure I have this correctly.

You want to re-write this url:
http://eli-white.com/lastfm/thesavior01.png

To this:
http://eli-white.com/lastfm/index.png?user=thesavior01

And this didn't work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/lastfm/(.*)\.png$ /lastfm/index.png?user=$1 [R]

And this didn't work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/lastfm/(.*)\.png$ /lastfm/index.png?user=$1 [QSA,R]

all of your statements are correct.

and none of that worked.

I know for a fact that mod_rewrite is on.