Question

I have looked at every question and every example of reWriteRule for an apache server… Nothing has worked.

I just need to change
http://beta.EXAMPLE.com/profile.php?profile_name=ntgCleaner
to
http://beta.EXAMPLE.com/ntgCleaner

I have to see if my .htaccess file is being read and checked to see if mod_rewrite is enabled and they both work perfectly fine.

For some reason, the examples that I have come across are not working for me. Here are some of the examples.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /(.*)$ /profile.php?username=$1 

,

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^profile\/(.*)$ ./profile.php?profileId=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

and

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profile.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profile.php?profile_name=$1

But none of these work. Is this because I am using a subdomain? I plan on eventually switching over the subdomain from BETA to just www when I finish the site.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ /profile.php?profile_name=$1 [L,QSA]

Your examples have a lot of different query strings in it, so I’m not sure which one is the one you really want. You have ?username=, ?profileId=, ?profile_name=.