Using mod rewrite to change URL with username variable

Question

How do I change the following client-side URL

domain.com/profile/jung
domain.com/jung (preferable)

to a server-side URL of

domain.com/profile.php?user_id=100

with the username in a php variable?

I know I need to edit my htaccess file with a RewriteCond and RewriteRule but it's still not clear to me...

How does Twitter manage their userpage URLs?

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-24 16:15:04Z

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Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)$ profile.php?user_name=$1

This will rewrite requests of /profile/foobar to /profile.php?user_name=foobar. Note that you just can rewrite the user name. You script will then have to look up the user ID if necessary.

answered May 24, 2009 at 16:15

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Jung Over a year ago

Thanks, that worked! Is there any easy way to remove profile/ from the url? so that domain.com/jung would work as well? Alternatively, if I renamed profile.php to p.php, and changed the rewriterule to ^p/, would that affect all pages that started with the letter p?

Gumbo Over a year ago

Yes it could be removed. But you should ask yourself, if that’s necessary/useful. See stackoverflow.com/questions/780311/…

Jung Over a year ago

Excellent, thanks for that! Just what I was looking for. Also some things I hadn't even thought about.

Peter Rowell · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-24 16:17:28Z

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Checkout the RewriteMap function.

answered May 24, 2009 at 16:17

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