Re-direct example.com/user to example.com/user/profile.php

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    Whats the easiest way to Re-direct example.com/user to example.com/user/profile.php? I need a way that my server can set up on its own - that is, when a user registers with my site, it automatically sets up a redirection in this manner, so that someone may access the users profile simply by typing example.com/user and not have to add all that extra stuff. My site is based on PHP, but this is a .htaccess issue isn't it? How can I write a PHP function to modify .htaccess and achieve this?

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    tlshaheen, May 30, 2010 IP
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    flexdex Peon

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    1.) use .htaccess and mod_rewrite
    
# for example, rewrite /user/42 to /user/profile.php?id=42
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/user/(\d+) /user/profile.php?id=$1 [L]
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    2.) yes ^^
    3.) since .htaccess is a file on your file system, you could read and write it with php (as long access belongs to you) but i would not recommend this way unless you really understand what you are doing with RewriteRules. Just edit your .htaccess file in the way shown at 1.) and you are done
     
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    Works great, thanks! Just so you know though, I removed the first slash in the RewriteRule, so its ^user/(\d+) after looking at other examples and such, because it wasn't working with the slash - but it works without it. Also changed other variables in it, but thanks for a good working example!
     
    tlshaheen, May 31, 2010 IP