index.php to detect value (or mod rewrite)

Hi,

I'm not sure how to do this... Whether index.php can handle it or if I need to use mod rewrite? Any advice and/or examples greatly appreciated.

I have a multi-user blog, lets say there if Fred, Peter and Jane

I want them to have their own page, eg:
blog.domain.com/fred
blog.domain.com/peter
blog.domain.com/jane

I do NOT want to create subfolders for each user. The above should effectively be the same as:
blog.domain.com/index.php?blog=fred
blog.domain.com/index.php?blog=peter
blog.domain.com/index.php?blog=jane

Any easy way to do the shorter method?

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?blog=$1

Code (markup):

Save this as .htaccess in your main directory.

 

doesn't work

My index.php contains a 'coming soon' image. After I put that in my .htaccess, the index.php loads but the link to the image is broken.

?

 

Sorry, forget last comment...

I pasted this into my index.php to test:

<?php if ($_GET["blog"]!="") {
echo $_GET["blog"];
} ?>

It displays value 'index.php', not fred

 

Ah yes, my bad. Try this.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule index.php?blog=$1 [QSA]

Code (markup):

Modified from this post.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=4644006&postcount=7

 

Still not working
If i type blog.domain.com/fred I get a 404 error. It seems its trying to load fred.html

Thanks for your efforts btw. I'm having fun trying.

 

I'm soooooo close!

A the moment I have:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Z]+)/?$ index.php?blog=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

If I type:
blog.domain.com/fred
blog.domain.com/peter

it works fine.

If I type:
blog.domain.com/fred1
blog.domain.com/peter parker

It fails.

I suppose I need to change the A-Z bit to inc numbers and other characters?

 

Last post from me. Got it working, sort of.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?blog=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

It accepts usernames without spaces or symbols, ie. letters of the alphabet and number 0 to 9.

Good enough for me. Thanks for your input nico_swd

 

try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?blog=$1 [L,QSA]

Code (markup):