Mod rewrite question

If I had a link
http://www.website.com/profile.php?user=Sam

How could I make that url
http://www.website.com/Sam


I know this will be done in htaccess However how can I set this up.

Awaiting your guru comments.

Thanks,
TJ

 

something like

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /profile.php?user=Sam [L,N]

that should do what your asking, you'll also need to change your application to use the new url scheme as well.

 

Try this

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

 

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /profile.php?user=$1 [L,NC]

Or

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)$ /profile.php?user=$1 [L,NC]

Also changing your code is needed to make it print out the correct URLs.

 

Im sorry I should have exalained that

Sam

Is data pulled from my tables.

Therefore that has to be in there somehow. And needed intire mod rewrite rules to place in htaccess file as im completely new to rewrite.

 

Vimf rep added thanks works great.