Custom URL / Apache URL Rewriting

Question

I can't seem to get my regex working properly.

This works fine:

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

But there's some mistakes. For one, the $1 is alphanumeric, not just numbers (it still works, though). Also, I don't want profile/ in the URL anymore.

I tried this:

RewriteRule ^(/^\w+$/)/?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

But it didn't work at all. What am I doing wrong?

kitti · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-13 18:00:00Z

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It looks like you're trying to embed a regex inside another? I don't think that works. Try this:

RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

We select 1 or more word characters from the start of the string to the end, optionally terminated by a /.

answered Mar 13, 2012 at 18:00

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Chuck Le Butt Over a year ago

Perfect! Thanks a lot. I should really do another regex tutorial, but this is the only one I need in my current project, and I'm up to my armpits in APIs!

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