htaccess redirect profile page

Question

I'm creating a system which shows your profile if you visit http://example.com/profile/profile.php?username=test

I would like to make it so you could go to http://example.com/profile/test and it would still work. At the same time I would like it to show ^^ as the url if you visit http://example.com/profile/profile.php?username=test

How can this be done?

Does this answer your question? [How to create friendly URL in php?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/812571/how-to-create-friendly-url-in-php) — CD001, Apr 07 '20 at 08:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '20 at 08:45

This should do :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profile/(.*)$ http://example.com/profile/profile.php?username=$1 [L]

You want to match everything after profile/ to the end of URI, and then pass it as parameter value to your "real" URI.

[L] flag may not be necessary, it indicates the rewrite engine you're done and it does not have to go throught the next rules.

You can try it here

Edit : I just see @Peter's comment, you definitively should read the question he linked, it will help you understand the whole thing.

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