htaccess mod_rewrite help needed.

[acctman]

Hi can someone help me with this rewrite below... Thanks in advance.

Currently all sub domains are rewrite User.cial.com -> www.cial.com/view/USER.html ... I want to change that removing the subdomain rewrite and have www.cial.com/User -> www.cial.com/view/USER.html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On		
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(cial\.com)$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$ 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?cial\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^\.]+)\.cial\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cial.com/view/%2.html [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^ads/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^shop/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^swf/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^js/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^mm/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^files/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php [L]
</IfModule>

[acctman]

this is what i have so far, its not right but I think it would be something like this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?cial\.com/([^\.]+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cial.com/view/%2.html [R=301,L]

[fatfoo]

Good luck with finding help.

[fris]

post on the modrewrite forum, richardk is a ninja when it comes to this stuff

[LustyVixens]

Are you sure you are rewriting? At the moment it seems more like a redirect (on your website). The problem with rewriting cial.com/User to cial.com/view/USER.html is that your website will need to know that cial.com/xxx is a user else accessing a regular page such as cial.com/support will try to redirect with a "member" of that username.

Instead I would rewrite matches to send the part after the / to a PHP file that will query the database to determine whether it is in fact a user and if so, redirect to the user profile.

I'm not really sure what your setup is so I don't want to post any code, but for sites I develop I usually send everything that is not a physical file or directory (indicated by !-f and !-d in the .htaccess) through my controller script, e.g.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ __controller.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]

[fris]

ya you want to check if its not a file or a dir first