Need help in one of .htaccess commands

[Mido™]

I want the user to could see the url of his profile page of the site in this way "http://www.mysite/username"
rather than
"http://www.mysite/profile.php?id="

and for that I used this command in .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.$ /profile.php?id=$1&n=$a [L]

but the problem with this is I have to add "." in the end of the username to be like this :
"http://www.mysite/username."
and I want it to be like this without the "." :
"http://www.mysite/username"

hope if any one can help

[BluePanther]

Should have post this in the apache forum

[Fou-Lu]

Moving from PHP to apache configurations.
Your rule specifies the .: RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.$
Remove the \. if you want to go without it. If you want it optional, add \.? instead.

[Mido™]

Originally Posted by Fou-Lu

Moving from PHP to apache configurations.
Your rule specifies the .: RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.$
Remove the \. if you want to go without it. If you want it optional, add \.? instead.

Thanks but it didn't work and gave me error "500 Internal Server Error"

[Fou-Lu]

I'm not sure if you can match [^/] by itself like this. Refine your pattern to a more specific ruleset and try again.

[Mido™]

I tried but it didn't work, hope if there is a solution for it.

[Fou-Lu]

So what is the match you are currently using?

[Mido™]

Originally Posted by Fou-Lu

So what is the match you are currently using?

I don't know what's you mean exactly, but I use this ^([^/]*)\.$ to get it characters or numbers after / and with "." in the end.