www.domain.com/username -> www.domain.com/main.php?username

[danieloberg]

I want to redirect visitors from www.domain.com/username
to www.domain.com/main.php?list=username

Can this be done with PHP?

Thanks!

/Daniel

[stolzyboy]

yep, check out the header function for starters

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

[danieloberg]

Is it possible to do this without having to create a new directory
for every username?

[Weedpacket]

Well.... yes. Depends on your server (consult its documentation) and see how you can configure it to rewrite URLs (under Apache its the job of mod_rewrite). A Google search on rewriting URLs is also useful at this point.

The thing to remember is that a URL is not a filepath. It is the web server's job to turn URLs into filepaths, and there's no law that says http://www.example.com/dir/subdir/file.html has to be in a directory called /www/example.com/htdocs/dir/subdir/file.html on the server. Probably is, but it doesn't have to be.