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Asked: 2026-05-27T21:25:00+00:00

I tried having http://domain.com/user/foobar redirected to http://domain.com/user/index.php?id=foobar using the following code in .htaccess: RewriteEngine

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I tried having http://domain.com/user/foobar redirected to http://domain.com/user/index.php?id=foobar using the following code in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /data
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ user/index.php?id=$1

But for some reason only index.php (not foobar) is returned to the script as ID.

I think mod_rewrite gets confused because of the existing folder name also matching the regex pattern. It works, however, after renaming the folder to _user and accordingly modifying the above code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take care that the rewrite rule in your .htaccess is applied multiple times:

    0: http://domain.com/data/user/foobar
1: /data/user/foobar -> /data/user/index.php?id=foobar
2: /data/user/index.php?id=foobar -> /data/user/index.php?id=index.php

    So it always replaces your id parameter with index.php.

    You need to write a condition that if index.php is already requested, it won’t get rewritten, e.g. by checking if a file already exists:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /data

# the following condition applies to the next rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ user/index.php?id=$
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