Rewrite URL Parameter containing dot

Question

I think that I am trying to achieve an impossible result.

The scenario is PURL-Mailing and I already got some URL's rewritten to fit the URL, sent to the customer.

The customer enters the site by the following domain: http://domain.com/ UserName

The Variable UserName represents the GET-Variable, which equivalent to http://domain.com/index.php?user= UserName

I achieve this with the following rewrite Rules:

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?name=$1  [QSA] 
#This works perfect and translates to http://domain.com/UserName

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?name=$1 [L] 
#This achieves the goal but does not reflect in the URI I want:
#http://domain.com/UserName

To go further, there are also some Names containing a dot in the Name like A.Jackson that also need to be treated as UserName . As those are only 13 Name I could implement them manually. What I don't know is how I can prevent the part after the dot to be handled as a file extension. Is there a way to write a custom handle in *mod_rewrite* for those? And if so, can anybody explain to me how?

Thanks in advance and best regards!

Answer 1

Here is your fix

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*[\.]*[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?name=$1  [L]

Answer 2

ok try below

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(img|anyother folders that you want to ignore|anyother folders that you want to ignore|...)
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*[\.]*[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)[/]*$ test.php?name=$1  [L]

replace 'anyother folders that you want to ignore' with folder name that you want to ignore. Seperate each folders with '|'

You also have to provide full path to the CSS, image or any other links used in your web page when you using URL rewrite functions