社交网络htaccess重定向

Question

I'm building a php/mysql website and am facing a little problem, I have profiles in my website whereby a random user profile would have the following example link: www.MyDomain.com/profile.php?username=abc

What i would like to do, is show something like this in the address bar: www.MyDomain.com/abc

Also, if someone types in: www.MyDomain.com/abc, it should take him to "abc"'s profile which in reality is www.MyDomain.com/profile.php?username=abc

Answer 1

I'm not 100% how to do it with the root / level, but I think this should work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1 [L]

There's a real neat site you can use to check your rules.

Answer 2

What you're looking for is mod rewrite. There are a couple of decent generators out there. Have a play with them:

http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/

http://www.myseotool.com/free-seo-tools/htaccess-url-rewrite-generator.php

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml