htaccess with rewrite

hi,
i need your help for my blogging system.

domain.com/blogs.php?blog_name=USER-NAME
USER-NAME part can be change and user can use " a-z OR 0-9 OR '-' "


with using htaccess i want to do, if a visitor visit URL
domain.com/USER-NAME like that opening domain.com/blogs.php?blog_name=USER-NAME adress



how can ı do with using mod_write in htaccess?

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/$ blogs.php?blog_name=$1

put the above code in your .htaccess and then it should be accesable at domain.com/USER-NAME

 

Not Found says.

can u check?

http://www.woips.com/blogs.php?blog_name=ykntr
http://www.woips.com/ykntr

 

See http://www.woips.com/ykntr/

If u want it accessable at http://www.woips.com/ykntr (with out the bracket also)

then change it to

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/$ blogs.php?blog_name=$1
RewriteRule (.*)$ blogs.php?blog_name=$1

 

a blank page open

 

No Probs.. lad i could help

 

i sent one more pm.

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)$ blogs.php?blog_name=$1

use that

 

One thing I would point out is that just with the above code you are going to route EVERYTHING through your blogs.php script (including images, css files etc etc)

Really you should have a prefix to identify it's meant to be a users profile such as
/profile/username-here

 

well i think if something exist it wont execute the mod rewrite rule correct me if i am wrong

 

doesnt work

 

i think its ur script bug coz none of ur pages are loading including http://www.woips.com/

 

also i prefer use the first one

url.com/user_name/

thanks.

 

That's incorrect Bohra
You need to change it to something like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?(\w-]+)/?$ blogs.php?blog_name=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

 

it works

 

Cool. Try it without the /? at the beginning of the rewrite rule and see if it still works. If it does, remove it

 

ohk i was in the perception thats its fine but i guess it isnt after all

coz files like http://www.woips.com/templates/tictac/img/top_h1_blue.gif still work even if we have the .htaccess

 

Unless you tell the rewrite engine to check if a file exists it will just try and rewrite it anyway
The psuedo code of the rewrite above is
-> Turn rewrite Engine on
-> If File doesn't exist
-> and folder doesn't exist
-> rewrite the url if it matches the pattern to blog.php

 

Alrite so i assume wordpress does this too.. coz they re route everything to index.php

 

thanks both of them