php mod rewrite

Question

i got a Q regarding mod_rewrite with php.

currently my userprofile php page has the following link to determine a user: domain.com?username=john

i would need to convert this url into like this: domain.com/john.

how can i do this in mod_rewrite??

Answer 1

Something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^domain.com/(.*)$ domain.com/profile.php?username=$1

Answer 2

I found the solution. The initial problem was my profile php page has the following link: domain.com/profile.php?username=john

instead of this, i would need to make it easy to read url like this: domain.com/john.

what i did is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /profile.php?username=$1 [L]

I'm not sure if this has any security breach but do leave your feedback