.htaccess Virtual Directory

[Adamwts]

Well, im trying to get user profiles to be in a virtual directory e.g:
http://mydomain.com/profiles.php?user=test and i want to get it to display something like http://mydomain.com/users/test, could someone please post me the EXACT full .htaccess file for that example please?
Thanks ;)

[Nick Presta]

You want to use mod_rewrite.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting

[<? Ashley ?>]

This should work:

RewriteRule /users/(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz[0-9]+)
/profiles.php?user=$1

Hope that helps.....I know the mod_rewrite syntax can be confusing at first...

Just remember to READ and try to understand it.....rarther than copying/pasting it into your .htaccess and not learning anything! :P

Ashley

[unclekyky]

This should work:

RewriteRule /users/(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz[0-9]+)
/profiles.php?user=$1

Hope that helps.....I know the mod_rewrite syntax can be confusing at first...

Just remember to READ and try to understand it.....rarther than copying/pasting it into your .htaccess and not learning anything! :P

Ashley

Your kidding right? Why write the whole alphabet out, just do "a-z"

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^users/([a-z0-9]+) /profiles.php?user=$1 [QSA,L]

I'm not 100% sure that will work. I haven't messed with mod_rewrite in quite awhile.

[<? Ashley ?>]

lol I know...

I knew I could write a-z, but i didnt know the exact way...."a-z0-9" or "a-z,0-9" ect... :P

[cancer10]

And what would be the code if i want

http://mydomain.com/profiles.php?user=test

to be

http://test.mydomain.com


Thanx

[cpf]

Uhh,
a) Old thread,
b)You need to create the subdomain with whatever (cPanel, etc...), the have that go to, say, a folder called /subdomains/whatever, but use ,htaccess to rewrite any requests in the /subdomains dir to profiles.php?whatever.

Might post some code when I get home :p