[RESOLVED] Mod Rewrite problem.

atokatim

Ok, yet again i have run into a strange problem. I am using mod rewrite to automatically send users to their profile if they just type in mysite.com/their_username. If a user has a username with the ~ symbol, it says page not found 🙁 can that be fixed?

Here is my code :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^\.\/]+)$ profile.php?user=$1

Thanks!
Tim

atokatim

anyone happen to know what i could do to fix this problem?

bradgrafelman

What is happening is that Apache has a "UserDir" directive to redirect all "/~" requests to a different "users" web folder - something webservers at university might do for example.

If you look in the httpd.conf file, there will probably be something along the lines of:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.  Be especially careful to use
# proper, forward slashes here.  On Windows NT, "Personal/My Website"
# is a more appropriate choice.
#
UserDir "/path/to/users_folder/"

I'm not sure how to fix this other than a) prepending "user" paths with an arbitrary pseudo-directory, e.g. "/user/~username", or b) turn off the UserDir feature (might not be possible unless you have access to the httpd.conf file... though I'm not sure).

atokatim

One of my users has the ~ after another character and it works correctly. is it only for users with the ~ symbol at the very beginning?

bradgrafelman

Yes. As I said, if the path begins with "/~", Apache uses the rest of the directory name to transfer the request to the specified UserDir (e.g. mydomain.com/~user1 would transfer to something like mydomain.com/users/user1/).