Question

What should I add the rewrite rule to include reading periods?

I have this currently on my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /user/public/index.php?username=$1 [L]

if i have this it works fine:

http://mydomain.com/user/public/usernamehere

but if i have this i get the 404:

http://mydomain.com/user/public/usernametwo.net

Thanks.

Answer 1

Add the point to your set of allowed input.

Try this…

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\._-]+)$ /user/public/index.php?username=$1 [L]

</IfModule>

I don’t know the URL structure of your page, but a better way of rewriting would be…

RewriteRule ^user/public/([a-zA-Z0-9\._-]+)$ /user/public/index.php?username=$1 [L]