Question

<h1><a href="profile.php?id=' . $id . '" target="_self">' . $name. '</a></h1>

The above is the reference which points to my profile1.php file. This file is called index.php . It currently displays the urls as this:

http://www.domain.com/interact/profile1.php?id=36

I have tried implementing the .htaccess file to rewrite the url. I tried many combinations and most of them gave a 500 error and some did not rewrite the url.
This is the .htaccess file which I use, it does not make the url to change.

I want the url to look like http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ profile1.php/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

I know this is a very basic question but I seem to stuck in it and have read basic tutorials but am not able to implement it properly.

The files index.php ,profile1.php and .htaccess are in folder named interact.

Tell me any changes required in php or .htaccess files.

Answer 1

It currently displays the urls as this: http://www.domain.com/interact/profile1.php?id=36

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I want the url to look like http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36

Step 1:

Change your content to have links like this:

<h1><a href="profile/' . $id . '" target="_self">' . $name. '</a></h1>

This way, when you click on a link the URL that will appear in the URL address bar is will look like: http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36

Step 2:

Then you need to use these rules to internally change it back:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /interact/
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]*) profile1.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

In order to point any external links, like google index bots to the new URLs, you’ll need to add these as well:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /interact/profile1\.php\?id=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^ http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/%2 [L,R=301]