htaccess rewrite example.com/user.php?id=username to example.com/username

Question

Title says it all im having trouble rewriting the following urls

The original URL: example.com/user.php?id=username

The rewritten URL: example.com/username

My .htcacess code is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /user.php?id=$1 [L]

What the issue?

Answer 1

The rewrite engine will loop, which means the rewritten URI ( /user.php ) matches the same pattern and gets applied again. Try adding some conditions:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /user.php?id=$1 [L]