Question

I have this url

http://mysite.com/profile?id=78

I wanted to changed it to be like this

http://mysite.com/78/

How would I do that?

I have this code in my htaccess, but it seems it’s not working.

RewriteRule ^id/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ profile?id=$1

Kindly guide me on this one.

Your help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I am pretty sure that you should use the RewriteBase directive

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Use the following rule if you want to make the page like a directory
RewriteRule ^u/(!(profile.php))$ u/$1/ [R=301,L]
# The following rule does the rewrite.
RewriteRule ^u/(!(profile.php))/$ profile.php?name=$1 [L]

This will rewrite http://mysite.com/u/john/ to http://mysite.com/profile?name=john.

Edit this is the new answer

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Use the following rule if you want to make the page like a directory
RewriteRule ^u/(!(profile.php))$ u/$1/ [R=301,L]
# The following rule does the rewrite.
RewriteRule ^u/(!(profile.php))/$ profile.php?name=$1 [L]
# The following rewrite the other way round:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/profile.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST|HEAD|TRACE)\ /profile.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} name=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php$ u/%1? [R=301,L]