.htaccess Remove PHP get data from URL

Question

Well I'm making profile pages so right now it looks like this

http://example.com/random/?user=Robert

What I want to do is remove ?user= from the URL so the page appears as

http://example.com/random/Robert

Iv'e searched and I can't find anything working for me. Thanks!

Answer 1

Based on http://statichtml.com/2010/mod-rewrite-baseon-on-query-string.html this should do the trick:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=(.*)$    [NC]
RewriteRule ^random$ random/$1             [NC,L,R=301]

Answer 2

The first step is to make all of your links in this form http://example.com/random/Robert , then in the htaccess file in your document root, add:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^random/(.+)$ /random/?user=$1 [L]

But to handle 301 redirects to your old URLs, you can include this:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /random/\?user=([^\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^random/$ /random/%1 [R=301,L]