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Asked: 2026-06-03T15:12:33+00:00

Ok i guess this is a bit of a general question really as opposed

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Ok i guess this is a bit of a general question really as opposed to a problem.

I am building a system where users can share their profile on other websites so i am wondering is it possible to shorten the actual url which would provide a link to their profile which would be something like this, www.somedomain.com/users/profile.php?user=myusername to simply cut out the users folder and the profile page and so something like this: www.somedomain.com/myusername

I have seen lots of url shortening scripts but they don’t seem to do this, any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you’re looking for is called URL rewriting and can be done using Apache’s mod_rewrite. You would place a file called .htaccess in your root web directory and it would contain a snippet like this:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule  /(.*) /users/profile.php?user=$1
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