URL format

[StarXploser]

Hi,
How do you create pages like:

www.url.com/user1
www.url.com/user2

instead of

www.url.com/?user=user1

[StarXploser]

If you don't know how to do it, but know the name of the process, tell me please.

[FreakSheep]

I know you can do it with php or asp. You put it as the 404 page, then redirects you to the page your want. With Apache, you can do it with mos_rewrite (i think thats it). ill get some more info for you later, but I really have to get on this paper I have to write :(

[playboyadonis]

what's your server language

[StarXploser]

php

[StarXploser]

anyone knows what it's called ?

[StarXploser]

I know you can do it with php or asp. You put it as the 404 page, then redirects you to the page your want. With Apache, you can do it with mos_rewrite (i think thats it). ill get some more info for you later, but I really have to get on this paper I have to write :(

Well, I googled mos_rewrite, and i think you meant mod_rewrite. I found a few sites that explain how to do it, so i'll try that. thx for your help.

[hl]

Well, I googled mos_rewrite, and i think you meant mod_rewrite. I found a few sites that explain how to do it, so i'll try that. thx for your help.
indeed, mod_rewrite.. you create a .htaccess file in your public_html directory, inside of it, you could put something like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user([0-9]) /?user=$1

[Jeff Wheeler]

Actually, it should be:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user([0-9]) /?user=user$1

According to his original question ;)


;P

[hl]

Actually, it should be:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user([0-9]) /?user=user$1

According to his original question ;)


;P
un typo

[Jeff Wheeler]

huh?

[StarXploser]

Thx for the replies.
I've been playing with mod_rewrite and thats what i came up with:

RewriteRule "^([^/\.]*)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

and it works like this:
www.url.com/someUser -> www.url.com/bio.php?user=someUser
like on myspace.com

but then if I type www.url.com it translates it to www.url.com/bio.php?user=
and I don't wan that. I want it t go to index.php.

so i added this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^\$"
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

if the query is empty > go to index.php

doesn't work. I'm having problem with the syntax and i can't find a site that makes it clear.

can someone help ?
Thx

[hl]

Thx for the replies.
I've been playing with mod_rewrite and thats what i came up with:

RewriteRule "^([^/\.]*)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

and it works like this:
www.url.com/someUser -> www.url.com/bio.php?user=someUser
like on myspace.com

but then if I type www.url.com it translates it to www.url.com/bio.php?user=
and I don't wan that. I want it t go to index.php.

so i added this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^\$"
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

if the query is empty > go to index.php

doesn't work. I'm having problem with the syntax and i can't find a site that makes it clear.

can someone help ?
Thx

that's why a lot of people either use a seperate directory, or a special character like ~ with the username, it prevents index.php from being considered. of course there must be some regex to make it not do anything to a file with an extension such as php.

[StarXploser]

well, the .php stuff work. for example url.com/index.php works.
but url.com/ doesnt.

RewriteRule "^([^/\.]*)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

takes care of periods and slashes

so url.com/aaa/aaa
would not be considered
and url.com/aaa.php or url.com/aaa.gfdgfdgd or url.com/aa/aa.php wouldnt be considered.

my problem is that i dont know how to test for a BLANK. i tried but it's not working.

[StarXploser]

got it:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule "^([^/\.]*)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

[expensive_pen]

you can do that in java when you map your servlets

[Jeff Wheeler]

got it:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule "^([^/\.]*)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

I think instead, you could've changed the * in the regex to a plus ;)

[chunk]

If


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule "^([^/\.]+)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

Redirects anyone that goes to url.com/qwerty to url.com/bio.php?user=qwerty but ignores / and . what would it be for it to ignore everything but / and . ?

somthing like:


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule "^(/\.)/?$" "bio.php?user=$1"

So when someone types: url.com/hello/anyone it would redirect you to, url.com/bio.php?user=hello

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