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.htacces to create friendly URLs. Help needed

I am using ids to display the records (profiles ) of members.

So /profile.php?id=1 displays the data of member with id 1.

But these urls are ugly and not SEO friendly either.

I want change the urls to the format profiles/membername (membername is a unique alias for each member already stored in the db).

How can I achieve this link structure through .htaccess?

Answer 1

This requires apache’s mod_rewrite module to be installed. What you want can be achieved through the following piece of code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profiles/(.*)?$ profile.php?id=$1
</IfModule>

Example:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/profiles/1234 -> http://www.yourwebsitename.com/profile.php?id=1234
If you want more variables just modify the above line like below:

RewriteRule ^profiles/(.*)/(.*)?$ profile.php?id=$1&var2=$2

Just edit your .htaccess file and add the above lines, make sure you create a backup of your .htaccess before making any modifications.