Creating friendly URL's in Xampp

Question

This is my non-friendly URL: localhost/website/users/?name=UserA

Now, i tried to create a friendly URL using .htaccess file.

This is everything in my .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /movies/error404.html  #For Error 404

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /website/users/(.*)$ /website/users/name=$1

Now, When I open localhost/website/users/UserA it opens error 404 page.

Yes mod_rewrite is enabled

`RewriteRule /website/users/(.*)$ /website/users/?name=$1` try this — Syed Aqeel, Jun 08 '17 at 08:13
Possible duplicate of [How can I create friendly URLs with .htaccess?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033407/how-can-i-create-friendly-urls-with-htaccess) — LF00, Jun 08 '17 at 08:14
Here is the complete guide you can learn it from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20563772/reference-mod-rewrite-url-rewriting-and-pretty-links-explained — Shahroze Nawaz, Jun 08 '17 at 08:16
If your non-friendly URL is working (I'm surprised) then either the rewrite rule needs to issue a redirect (put ` [R]` at the end of the rule), in which case the browser will still show the non-friendly URL after visiting the friendly one. Otherwise the second argument in the RewriteRule should be relative to the .htaccess file's location, and look more 'internal' e.g. `RewriteRule /website/users/(.*)$ website/users.php?name=$1` (I don't have enough information to give a 100% working example, I'm just explaining) — Lee Kowalkowski, Jun 08 '17 at 08:27
`RewriteRule ^website/users/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$ website/users/index.php?id=$1 [NC,L] ` try this one — Syed Aqeel, Jun 08 '17 at 08:28

Syed Aqeel · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-08T09:01:09.900

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Try this in your .htaccess file

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule    ^users/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$    users/index.php?name=$1    [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
ErrorDocument 404 http://localhost/movies/error404.html

In this cause the .htaccess file would be placed under the website directory root

Note: The requests are going to index.php file which is under the users directory if you have another filename then replace it with that one

edited Jun 08 '17 at 09:01

answered Jun 08 '17 at 08:45

Syed Aqeel

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Still not working, it redirects to error404.html Note: I have the .htaccess file placed inside website folder, is that right? – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 08:50
Still not working bro, give me 5 minutes, i will cut down some files, make a zip with only required things, and upload it. – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 09:12
Ok, i will see it – Syed Aqeel Jun 08 '17 at 09:34
And When i use my previous code, which i mentioned in the question: I get this error, while opening any page http://prntscr.com/fhbq0g – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 09:44
Anyway, this one works perfectly fine. But it redirects me to error-404 page: If the url has space or "-", any solution for that? Thanks a lot for helping me, really mean a lot to me – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 09:45
The third line for rewrite rule using regex `0-9A-Za-z` you can change it for what you want to except in url – Syed Aqeel Jun 08 '17 at 09:54

Creating friendly URL's in Xampp

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