Apache .htaccess problems

[redrabbit]

This may be slightly off-topic but please forgive me 🙂 Just need a little help with .htacess.

What I want to do

• the user clicks login
• enter a username and password
• it then redirects them to THEIR space. E.g:

if a user called "george" logged in, they would be redirected to ./george/ or if sally logged in it would be redirected to ./sally/

My code - .htaccess
AuthType Basic
AuthName "xxxxx"
AuthUserFile /home/xxxx/xxxx/members_htusers
Require valid-user

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} bobby [NC]
#RewriteRule ^$ bobby [R]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ bobby [R]

The problem
The user can login correctly if the information is correct - no problem there. But it just isn't redirecting the user at all. Any ideas why. The code shown in blue I have tried but that didn't work either.

Any ideas please? Really stuck on this now. Thank you 🙂

[MarkR]

Why not use PHP to do the redirect - after all, this is a PHP forum 🙂

Just have a simple PHP script read REMOTE_USER and send a redirect as necessary. Job done.

Much easier than mod_rewrite (particularly if you're going to use PHP in your application anyway).

Mark

[redrabbit]

MarkR wrote:

Why not use PHP to do the redirect - after all, this is a PHP forum 🙂

Just have a simple PHP script read REMOTE_USER and send a redirect as necessary. Job done.

Much easier than mod_rewrite (particularly if you're going to use PHP in your application anyway).

Mark

Haha, never even thought of that ... duhh :glare:

How would I read the entered username though?