Is this possible?

OK so I want to let my users have a top-level subdomain, for example

http://www.domain.com/username

I want to change it from
index.php?view=view_profile.php&user=username


Thing is, I want it to be able to work for both

http://www.domain.com/username

and one with a trailing slash

http://www.domain.com/username/

I got the one with a trailing slash to work, but I can't seem to get the one without a trailing slash to work. Anyway to do this?

 

post your htaccess I'll fix it up.

 

this is all there is

RewriteEngine On


RewriteRule ^(.*)/ /index.php?view=view_profile.php&user=$1

Code (markup):

I tried adding
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?view=view_profile.php&user=$1

But this gives me a 500 internal server error.

 

Dig deeper into this forum, Nintendo gave the solution to another member trying to do the same.

Sorry, don't remember how to give you a replica of such coding.

 

Where you are getting 500 Internal server error, you are actually creating an infinite loop. Use this instead:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?view=view_profile.php&user=$1

Code (markup):

RewriteCond will stop the rewriting process after first pass (otherwise apache continues rewriting again and again since RewriteRule matches everytime). It will match with and without trailing slash.