Question

I need to write simple Apache mod_rewrite statement, which redirect user urls to a script:

**http://mydomain.com/username -> http://mydomain.com/user.py?uname=username**
mydomain.com/username -> http://mydomain.com/user.py?uname
mydomain.com/username -> http://mydomain.com/user.py?uname

The following lines don’t work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z]{5,}$  /user.py?username=$1 [L]

Looking forward for your help

Answer 1

Try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /user.py?uname=$1 [L]

This makes it so when someone requests http://mydomain.com/username, they will get served the content at http://mydomain.com/user.py?uname=username.