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>ssp-cdr< · 11-04-2012, 06:16 PM

There's a page on my website to view a user's profile. The username is passed in through the URL and since that's all that's needed in the URL I simply pass it as the query string, such as http://example.com/profile/?manwithahat

I thought it would be nice to get rid of the question mark in the URL by using the Apache RewriteEngine, so the URL could be like this http://example.com/profile/manwithahat

But I am having trougble with the regular expression that RewriteRule needs. I thought I could use -

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]

but this causes an internal server error.

Doing some testing I found that this will pass through a number the way I need it to -

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]

so that if the URL is http://example.com/profile/123456 then in PHP the $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] value becomes 123456. From this test I know that the overall structure of the RewriteRule is correct, it's just the regular expression that needs fixing.

What should be used instead of ^(.*)$ ?

11-04-2012, 06:16 PM	PM User \| #1
>ssp-cdr< Regular Coder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 100 Thanks: 16 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts	Help with .htaccess RewriteRule regex There's a page on my website to view a user's profile. The username is passed in through the URL and since that's all that's needed in the URL I simply pass it as the query string, such as `http://example.com/profile/?manwithahat` I thought it would be nice to get rid of the question mark in the URL by using the Apache RewriteEngine, so the URL could be like this `http://example.com/profile/manwithahat` But I am having trougble with the regular expression that RewriteRule needs. I thought I could use - `RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]` but this causes an internal server error. Doing some testing I found that this will pass through a number the way I need it to - `RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ ?$1 [QSA,L]` so that if the URL is `http://example.com/profile/123456` then in PHP the $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] value becomes 123456. From this test I know that the overall structure of the RewriteRule is correct, it's just the regular expression that needs fixing. What should be used instead of `^(.)$` ? __________________ The CodingForums Funny Images thread - http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=245405 Last edited by >ssp-cdr<; 11-04-2012 at 11:23 PM..