Question

http://abc.com/test/batch/profile/anyname

In the above url anyname varies depending upon the selected link.

I have to redirect the above url to friend.php and I should pass anyname as parameter to that file

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Put this in your .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^profile/([a-z0-9]+)$ friend.php?username=$1 [NC,L]

This allows that people access the following url on your site:

http://www.yoursite.com/profile/abc

http://www.yoursite.com/profile/abc123

http://www.yoursite.com/profile/123

However, any other characters than alphanumerics will not qualify for the rewrite above.

Edit:

If you actually will be keeping the http://www.yoursite.com/test/batch/-url, the .htaccess would have to be adjusted accordingly. I just assumed that you’d be using the root of http://www.yoursite.com/.