mod_rewrite- im so confused

I am trying to figure out how to get a page on my website, like :

www.mypage.com/anyname

to call to

www.mysite.com/users.php?user=anyname

but still show

www.mypage.com/anyname

What would I have to put in my htaccess file to make this happen?

I want the person to be able to type in any username they want, and it shows teh page for users.php?whatevernametheyput

Please help!!!!

 

Try This:

if (isset($_GET['user']))
$_GET['user']=$user;
echo "Hello $user";

else
echo '<form action=users.php method=get>
Username:<input type=text length=100 name=user>
</form>';

Code (users.php):

 

thats not really what im looking for


if they type in www.mysite.com/username

i want them to be taken to www.mysite.com/users.php?user=username

 

Oh ok.

Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I'm not a mod_rewrite expert, so won't really tell you I know how.

 

Hehe, its alright... Thanks for the effort though

 

Take a look at my post here

Unless you have only 1 page (users.php) you will still need to specify in the url what page to call, ie (www.mypage.com/users/anyname). Otherwise you should modify the rewrite example, then whenever a subfolder is specifed, the users.php would be called.

 

RewriteRule ^(.*)(\.html|\.htm|\.php|\/)?$ users.php?user=$1[L,NC]

Code (markup):

 

Thanks!


This goes in Htaccess, right?

 

yes indeed.

 

Well thank you so much It would have taken me ages to figure this out.