Social network forwarding htacess
A quick question for you guys, I am creating a php / mysql site and I am facing a little problem, I have profiles on my site where a random user profile will have the following link for example: www.MyDomain.com/profile.php? username = a
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, they should take it to the profile "abc", which is actually www.MyDomain.com/profile.php?username=abc
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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I'm not 100% sure how to do this with root / level, but I think this should work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1 [L]
Here's a real neat site that you can use to test your rules.
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What you are looking for is mod rewrite. There are a couple of decent generators. 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
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