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user1928545
user1928545

Reputation:

How do you rewrite a URL using htaccess?

I'm attempting to use htaccess to write my urls as localhost/username instead of localhost/profile.php?id=username

I looked it up and this is what I found to be the solution

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /profile.php?id=$1 [L]

That's an exact copy from this stackoverflow question htaccess rewrite for query string however, for some reason it always returns a 500 error. I'm not sure why it's giving me this since I'm no expert with htaccess. I pretty much just find code modify it to fit my use.

Mod_rewrite is definitely turned on. So I know that can't be the issue. Any idea what is wrong with the code I have?

Edit:

This is what the apache error log returned.

[Sat Apr 27 14:20:10.558122 2013] [core:error] [pid 3244:tid 1688] [client 127.0.0.1:58653] AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (2)

Kevin Harrison
Kevin Harrison

Reputation: 337

The part where it says /profile.php?id=$1 is where it will rewrite you to. If that;s not a file then it would show up with an error so change that to whatever file you want it to rewrite you to.

Hope this helped

  • Kevin

Upvotes: 0

Denis de Bernardy
Denis de Bernardy

Reputation: 78473

If it's really a redirect loop per your comment, try adding this line immediately before your rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f

Upvotes: 1

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