Question

I am looking to create a few rewrite rules. Here are the types of urls I want to change.

http://www.mysite.com/profile/kwelch change to profile.php?username=kwelch

Here is the line I have for that:
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/.]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1

I am also looking to rewrite all ages to add the .php to any page.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L, QSA]

I would like to have these work together and also add more that have the same logic as the first.

Other urls:

http://www.mysite.com/wof/vote change to vote.php?type=wof
http://www.mysite.com/wof/nominate change to nominate.php?type=nominate

I would like to add more to the url such as user id if possible.

I have attempted to add my two lines together and they work beautifully seperately but the page errors and shows a 500 error.

I appreciate the help.

Answer 1

It’s foremost a matter of order: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mod_Rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask?

Your rule to add the extension should be the first, and slightly adapted however:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

This ensures it only rewrites requests which really exist as .php script. An assertion in the RewriteRule like (?<!\.php) might have the same effect. (Much simpler would be resorting to MultiViews in place of this RewriteRule.)

And lastly you might have luck with adding [L] to each further rule. This prevents loops in the rewrite engine, which I suspect is what your unspecified error is about.