Little Mod Rewrite help

[Kloon]

So I have this in my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?id=$1 [L]

and I have a php file

<?php
  echo "username is ".$_GET['id'];
?>

so according to me if I visit http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/theusername the php file should return theusername, but instead it returns user.php

 

[Kloon]

Got it working fix was

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ user.php?id=$1

forgot the /$

 

[Kloon]

Still got a problem if I go to http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/test/ it works but if I go to http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/test it fails

 

[Kloon]

k finally got it working with the following code, this is what baffles me cause it exactly the same as the first try just a bit strick when it comes to what characters to use.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?id=$1

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Yeah, you limit the REGEX there to only allow A - Z (upper and lower case), 0 - 9 a underscore and dash characters. Do you want it to accept all characters?

You could achieve a more lenient rewrite with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ user.php?id=$1

Still got a problem if I go to http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/test/ it works but if I go to http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/test it fails

The second URL failed because the rewritten template explicitly required a "/" after the URL. My recommendation above would cater for both.

 

[Kloon]

Yeah, you limit the REGEX there to only allow A - Z (upper and lower case), 0 - 9 a underscore and dash characters. Do you want it to accept all characters?

You could achieve a more lenient rewrite with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ user.php?id=$1

I only want to allow that chars, thing is in my first try I did use RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?id=$1 and it dit not even pick up http://127.0.0.1/rewrite/user

 

[Kloon]

Yeah, you limit the REGEX there to only allow A - Z (upper and lower case), 0 - 9 a underscore and dash characters. Do you want it to accept all characters?

You could achieve a more lenient rewrite with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ user.php?id=$1

The second URL failed because the rewritten template explicitly required a "/" after the URL. My recommendation above would cater for both.

No the statements above does not work, it is supose to work acording to my regex knowledge but it doesn't

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Hmmm... maybe try ^((.*))$ and ^((.*))/$ ?