URL rewrite

I know I can turn:

http://www.mywebsite.com/?user=username

into:

http://www.mywebsite.com/user/username

But can I turn it into:

http://www.mywebsite.com/username

..?

 

It really depends... would this be used, like to show profiles here on DP ? if so maybe something like this should work, but bare in-mind, this might cause problems to other rules, but not file names.

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule (.[^/]*) /member.php?user=$1 [NC,L]

Code (markup):

 

All I am trying to do is give the user a shorter URL.

So, if the user goes to:

http://www.mywebsite.com/username

It will act as:

http://www.mywebsite.com/?user=username

...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

Code (markup):

What does the above do?

 

Its to tell the server that the username is not a file or directory name, anyway whats the current url your users goto ?

 

The url is:

http://www.mywebsite.com/?user=username

I could just make a rewrite, so that if I enter:

http://www.mywebsite.com/user/username

..in the browser, it will load just the same.

There's URL rewrite generators all over the Internet for that.

However, I don't want:

http://www.mywebsite.com/user/username

I want:

http://www.mywebsite.com/username

The current URL is:

http://www.mywebsite.com/?user=username

 

and if you try this what happens ?

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule (.[^/]*) /index.php?user=$1 [NC,L]

Code (markup):

http://www.mywebsite.com/username

 

Firefox says: "Oops! This link appears to be broken."

 

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /?user=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

This will return:
http://www.mywebsite.com/username/