Slight .htaccess Problem

influx

I have the following code in my .htaccess file for my website.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z_0-9-]+)((/)|())$ redirect.php?user=$1

Now let me explain. I basically host a blog site for a few friends of mine and I make it possible for users to view their blog by visiting www.website.com/username instead of having to go to www.website.com/redirect.php?user=username.

The only problem with this is if somebody types in 'www.website.com/username/' instead of 'www.website.com/username' they will get a 404 error.

I seemed to have made some strides with the code, if I enter, for example, 'www.website.com/myusername/' it will redirect me to: http://www.website.com/myusername/redirect.php?user=myusername instead of just http://www.website.com/redirect.php?user=myusername

I think I'm really close. How should I modify the .htaccess code to alleviate the problem with the extra slash at the end?

Thanks in advance!

-influx

frost110

I have some awesome code that allows for this to take place. You can even have it www.blogsite.com/username/blog-seo-title

and it takes u to that specific blog =P

www.aeonity.com is my blog site I made. If you would like some help IM me

(prefer AIM)

<---- My IM's

--FrosT

influx

Hey all,

I tried changing it to the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^{([A-Za-z_0-9-]+)((/)|())?$} redirect.php?user=$1

I even tried adding a / in front of redirect.php to call for the home directory.

None of this seems to work for me. If i type in www.website.com/username/ it will still redirect to www.website.com/username/redirect.php?user=username.

What could be wrong? Could it be my server?
Thanks guys!

frost110

How I set mine up was like this:

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [L]

RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|php|swf|inc|ico|js|cgi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|avi|mp3|midi|rar|zip|scr|phps|txt)$ /process/index.php

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.php

Basically what happens is if it is a real directory, it takes u to that directory. No questions asked.

If the url you are requesting is not a real directory and it is not a file then redirect it to process.php for it to be handled.

In the process.php you can handle the extra slash how you want to.

Questiosn feel free to email me if you like. frost110 -at- gmail -dot- com

--FrosT

jazz_snob

Maybe:

RewriteRule ^{([A-Za-z_0-9-]+)/?$} redirect.php?user=$1

I always escape the dash character inside []