.htaccess - Pretty User Profile URLs

Question

I want to make my user profiles 'pretty' as it were. Here is the regular URL:

user.php?user=UserName

I want this to become:

user/Username

Please help :) Im a .htaccess newbie.

You already asked something *very* similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/930420/htaccess-question — hbw, May 30 '09 at 22:42
I think this would be more appropriate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/904075/using-mod-rewrite-to-change-url-with-username-variable — Gumbo, May 30 '09 at 22:45

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '09 at 22:42

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Try these directives:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)$ user.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

This rule rewrites any request with a URL path of the form /user/foobar internally to /user.php?user=foobar.

answered May 30 '09 at 22:42

Gumbo

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '09 at 22:41

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RewriteRule ^user/(.+)$ user.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

answered May 30 '09 at 22:41

Ayman Hourieh

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