Question

I would to know how one is able to append a username directly to a site url without having to put it within a query?

Eg

http://www.myspace.com/micheal

instead of

http://www.myspace.com?name=micheal

Without having to create a new folder for the user so that when the url is typed including the name, the surfer is taken directly to the user’s profile.

Thanx

Answer 1

For the Apache web-server .htaccess file with the following code will do the thing.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ index.php?name=$1 [QSA,L]