Question

I want to create my url structure like::
facebook i.e. facebook.com/?pageid=122
For which I am using htaccess mod rewrite as:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_\-]+)/?([a-zA-Z0-9\-=&_@]*)$ /$1.php?$2 [QSA,L]

so I may translate pages like site.com/home/?pageid=22 into site.com/home.php?pageid=22

The code above works fine except that if I try to add dot like

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_\-]+)/?([a-zA-Z0-9\-=&_@\.]*)$ /$1.php?$2 [QSA,L]

The .htaccess breaks. I need dot so I may pass emails too i.e.
site.com/home/?email=[e-mail]

Please help

Answer 1

Try to remove the backslash before the dot. Since it’s not considered as a special character inside brackets in a POSIX regular expression.