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Sainath Krishnan
Sainath Krishnan

Reputation: 2139

Vanity URL and redirection

I am trying to make a redirection service, which can redirect users to their profile page, based on a vanity url.

The vanity URL will be of the format - www.site.com/username

This will redirect them to a page profile_redirect.php, which will echo the username (The functionality is deeper, but this is all I need help with).

I tried several of the answers posted here, but I am unable to get this to work. At the moment, it does nothing and just gives me a page not found error. I am running this on wamp, and I have localhost's alias set to "proj", so I call "http://proj/username", but this gives me page not found.

My current htaccess file (Relevant portion)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} >""
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ profile_redirect.php?user=$1 [L]

My current profile_redirect.php file

$getName=$_GET["user"];
echo $getName;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 352

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785481

Have your rules like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/?$ $1.php [L]

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/?$ profile_redirect.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 1

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