Apache Mod_Rewrite help needed.
 

i'm trying to make the default user profiles url http://www.qwerty.com/profile.php?user=john appear as http://www.qwerty.com/john and also be able to use http://www.qwerty.com/john/ with the slash. i want this for all users

i've tried a few rewrites and ended up just blocking the site

So what are you trying to do here, exactly... push a user from profile.php?user=blah to /blah? If so, just use a

header("Location: http://www.qwerty.com/$_GET[user]")

or similar in your php page.

If you're trying to map /john (or /john/) to profile.php?user=john, that gets a little more interesting, because then ANY subdirectory would have to be considered a profile request. Is that what you're after?

i want users to be able to type in http://www.qwerty.com/UserName/ or http://www.qwerty.com/UserName and pull up there account http://www.qwerty.com/profile.php?user=UserName

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

Will redirect domain.com/p/john to the page you want. It's better to do it under /p/ or any other name you choose as opposed to the root dir.

i see you point, cause if a user makes and account called images and the redirect is on the root i'll be fucked or atleast the redirect would get confused.

but is there a way around that? cause http://www.domain.com/UserName is so much cleaner looking and easier for a user to remember and tell someone

hmm that didn't work :(

try this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule profile/(.*)/(.*)/$ /profile.php?$1=$2

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule profile/(.*)/(.*)/?$ /profile.php?$1=$2

that sort of works, but images aren't loading

bump ....

Just be sure to create your own user login for any dir that you use yourself.