RewriteEngine (Rule)

cydec

Hi there poeple,

I'm having some troubles with the RewriteEngine i use in my .htaccess file:

the purpose is that:
www.domain.be/<name>
goes to, while keeps showing URL above ->
www.domain.be/profiel.be?n=<name>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\*\ ]+)$ /profiel.php?n=$1

now the problem is that names like the folowing dont work:
- cy.dec (because of the dot)
- cydéc (because of the é)
- ... (and so on, so the weird chars)

is there a solution for this problem ?

All i want to do is redirect everything after the / in the url to the n variable /profiel.php?n=
WHILE the url stays masked (so you keep seeing the original url)

drew010

try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /profiel.php?n=$1

cydec

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /profiel.php?n=$1

I tried that before but it won't work.

If i try to go to the site it seems to be stuck in a loop, well it takes forever to load or doesn't even load at al.

drew010

yeah i see why it doesnt work. i didnt pay close enough attention, but profiel.php falls under your rule so it keeps getting applied.

try this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^{/profiel.php.*$}
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /profiel.php?n=$1

not tested, but see how it works.

drew010

also, as a second note, you may want to put profiel.php in another folder, that way you can keep your document root open for whatever files you want, because index.php or index.html etc, will all fall under that rule so you would have to make special cases for all of them. that way you can designate a folder just for the script so you dont have to keep adding conditions to avoid rewriting the url.

i.e.
in my previous example, http://www.yoursite.com/index.html gets rewritten to http://www.yoursite.com/profiel.php?n=index.html
as would all other pages.

i would recommend you rethink your original example (www.domain.be/<name>) to be something like www.domain.be/users/<name>) to make it more structured.