Apache ModRewrite

Junior WebHelper Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 5

Hello there,

I was just wondering if anybody could advise me on how to use the apache rewrite module to do like myspace does ie domian.com/bob to domain.com/index.php?a=bob...

I get the basics of the module but this has been nothering me and I can't seem to get a lear answer by googling. It obviously causes problems when trying to access index.php etc... Ideally I don't want to use a work-around such as mydomain.com/person/bob but I'm oviously not conversant enough with the module syntax to work out how to do it.

I'd be grateful if anybody could lend any advice or point me in the right direction.

Cheers,
Milk.

EDIT: n.b. Sorry I guess I should have added this in the apache section. Chalk this one up to my temporary blindness..

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:49 pm (7 years, 2 months ago)

Moved to Web Servers.

To do what you want, you'll need to add a condition excluding index.php. The end result might look something like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^index\.php$
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?a=$1 [L]

That is assuming the user-names only contain letters and numbers, but you can change it to (.*) or something else.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 5

Hi there,

Excellent thanks for your help mate.

Cheers again,
Milk