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Daniele Molinari
Daniele Molinari

Reputation: 611

.htaccess permalinks: which rewrite rule?

I want to redirect all users from mysite.com/username to mysite.com/user.php?user=username

I am now using the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/ user.php?user=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ([^/.]+) user.php?user=$1 [L]

It works, but it is also redirecting directory paths into user.php (Ex. mysite.com/css/style.css -> mysite.com/user.php?user=css/style.css).

What should I do? Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 79

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785581

You just need to skip requests for real files and directories like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# If the request is not for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If the request is not for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/?$ user.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 1

bloodyKnuckles
bloodyKnuckles

Reputation: 12089

Add a RewriteCond to exclude requests ending in .css:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.css$
RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/? user.php?user=$1 [L]

I combined your 2 rules into one using a question mark ? to make the trailing forward slash optional.

If you so desire you can also exclude other "helper" files. And it might be helpful to also exclude re-rewriting the request for resource user.php:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|png|jpe?g|gif)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !user.php$
RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/? user.php?user=$1 [L]

Upvotes: 0

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