Question

Hi I previously posted a question on to Stack Over flow and was lucky enough to receive some assistance to my initial question which helped me better understand that what i was trying to achieve was possible.

The previous question is here: Visit php url shortening

I am building a system where users can share their profile on other websites so i am wondering is it possible to shorten the actual url which would provide a link to their profile which would be something like this, http://www.somedomain.com/users/profile.php?user=myusername to simply cut out the users folder and the profile page and so something like this: http://www.somedomain.com/myusername

the code I have is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule  /(.*) /users/profile.php?user=$1

Sadly two things happen, firstly the code doesn’t work and secondly when i add this code the css on the original long domain stops working.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Answer 1

code doesn't work: of course it won’t because it’s incorrect. Really wondering how did you end up accepting other question without properly testing it. Anyway take this code and replace your existing .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ - [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ users/profile.php?user=$1 [L,QSA,NC]