Issue with mod_rewrite query string rule

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My issue is pretty simple however as I am new to mod_rewrite I seem to be very confused. basically I am trying to make vision friendly urls with mod_rewrite. ie: 'http://example.com/user.php?id=3' works the same as 'user/7854' etc. i currently have a regex rule as so:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^user/([a-z]+)/?$ user.php?id=$1

phpinfo() confirms that mod_rewrite is in fact operating/working. My understanding of this is that, if the user is directed to 'http://example.com/user/7854' (for example) The mod_rewrite regex will translate via apache to my php script: 'http://example.com/user.php?id=7854' because anything after 'user/' becomes captured. That being said, this is my user.php:

<?php
    echo $_GET['id'];
?>

now as you can imagine 'http://example.com/user.php?id=7854' displays 7854 however 'http://example.com/user/7854' gives me an error (404) why is this? what have i misunderstood? I've spent an hour on numerous forums just to get this far, this concept isnt coming easy to me at all. cheers to any help.

hieroshima · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-15 15:58:42Z

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Like @andrea.r says: you have rule for all characters but no numbers.

Change: RewriteRule ^user/([a-z]+)/$ user.php?id=$1

to: RewriteRule ^user/([a-z,0-9]+)/$ user.php?id=$1

edited Dec 15, 2013 at 15:58

answered Dec 15, 2013 at 15:26

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Andrea Riva · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-15 15:11:28Z

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User ID is numerical and you've written [a-z] instead of [0-9].

Try this: RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)/?$ /user.php?id=$1

edited Dec 15, 2013 at 15:11

answered Dec 15, 2013 at 15:03

Andrea Riva

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Andrea Riva Over a year ago

EDIT: added backslash before user.php?id=$1

Halter Over a year ago

still no dice (404) on that idea, even tried emptying the cache just in case

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