.htaccess help required

hi

i am playing with one script and that has a .htaccess file. i have understood almost complete code of that file except the following lines.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^profiles/([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /profile.php?u=$1$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^profiles/?$ /profile.php [L]

Code (markup):

i just need to know what this code is doing

as per my understanding it should behave some thing like

if i access a url like
www.somedomain.tld/profile.php?u=Uname&q=show

url will be re-writen as
www.somedomain.tld/profiles/Uname/show/

but i know i am wrong.

can any one please explain me what is the logic of above .htaccess code.

thanks
akashif

 

It rewrites the url's it's code for mod_rewrite it will make your script generate search engine friendly url's

 

hi

i know it will re write the urls , but my question is what will be final url after re writing if above code is in .htaccess file.

anyway thanks reply

thanks
akashif

 

i think search engines can follow most dynamic urls now, if they want 2

 

i think www.somedomain.tld/profile.php?u=Uname&q=show can be crawled fine now by google?

 

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
http://evolt.org/ultimate_htaccess_examples
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#gen5
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23044

xino