htaccess redirect

[RuthC]

Hi, In my website there is a facility for user to create there own pages
we are maintaing this url as
www.mywebsite.com/mypage/user created page name
ex : www.mywebsite.com/mypage/ruth
user created page name can contain alphanumeric charecters including '_' (no white space)

I am using this code to redirect the user created pages

RewriteRule  ^mypage/(.*)/  mypage.php?u=$1
 

Now I am in a trouble boz I want to maintain my user created page url like
www.mywebsite.com/user created page name
ex: www.mywebsite.com/ruth
please help me to find the solution

Here is my .htaccess file.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .aspx
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
RewriteEngine on
 
RewriteRule ^privacy_policy/ privacy_policy.php
RewriteRule ^antispam_policy/ antispam_policy.php
RewriteRule ^terms_of_use/ terms_of_use.php
RewriteRule ^about_us/ about_us.php
RewriteRule ^press/ press.php
RewriteRule ^shop/ shop.php
RewriteRule ^sitemap/ sitemap.php
RewriteRule ^help/ help.php
RewriteRule ^faq/ faq.php
RewriteRule ^search/ search.php
RewriteRule ^login/password login.php?pw=lostpw
RewriteRule ^login/ login.php?c=login
RewriteRule ^memberPages/page([0-9])/ memberPages.php?one2=$1
RewriteRule ^member/favourites/([0-9]+)/ secure/favourites.php?p=$1
RewriteRule ^member/favourites/SH([^/\.]+)/?$ secure/favourites.php?d=$1
RewriteRule ^member/reminders/E([^/\.]+)/?$ secure/reminders.php?c=edit&rid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^member/reminders/D([^/\.]+)/?$ secure/reminders.php?c=delete&rid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^member/refer/(.+)/ secure/refer.php?referrer=$1
RewriteRule ^charity/CH([0-9]+)/ charity.php?ch=$1
RewriteRule ^charity/(.*)/ charity.php?category=$1
RewriteRule ^charity/ charity.php
RewriteRule ^member/donation/([0-9]+)/ secure/donation.php?cid=$1
RewriteRule ^member/donation/ secure/donation.php
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/myaccount/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/profile/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/profile/Password/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/refer_and_earn/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/favourites/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/favourites/([0-9]+)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/favourites/SH([^/\.]+)/?$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/reminders/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/create_mypage/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/manage_mypage/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/edit_mypage/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/reminders/(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/refer/(.*)
RewriteRule ^member/(.+)/ secure/login.php?c=$1
 
RewriteRule ^member/myaccount/ secure/myaccount.php
RewriteRule ^member/refer_and_earn/ secure/refer_and_earn.php
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/reminders/(.*)
RewriteRule ^member/reminders/ secure/reminders.php
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/favourites/(.*)
RewriteRule ^member/favourites/ secure/favourites.php
 
RewriteRule ^member/create_mypage/ secure/create_mypage.php
RewriteRule ^member/manage_mypage/ secure/manage_mypage.php
RewriteRule ^member/edit_mypage/ secure/manage_mypage.php?c=edit
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/profile/Password/
RewriteRule ^member/profile/ secure/profile.php
 
RewriteRule ^member/profile/(.+)/ secure/profile.php?c=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/member/profile/Password/
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/memberPages/page([0-9])/
RewriteRule ^memberPages/ memberPages.php
 
RewriteRule ^all(.*)/ show_all_retailers.php?p=$1
RewriteRule ^rev(.*)/ query.php?review=$1
RewriteRule  ^UK(.*)/  offer.php?id=$1
#RewriteRule  ^mypage/(.*)/  mypage.php?u=$1
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \-
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Link_Images/(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ query.php?q=$1
 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^member/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/secure$1 [L]
 
 

[pbmods]

Heya, Ruth.

What do you want your code to do? Give an example.
What is your code doing that you don't want it to do? Give an example.
What is your code *not* doing that it is supposed to? Give an example.

Incidentally, this:

RewriteRule  ^mypage/([^/]+)/?  mypage.php?u=$1
 

is a tad bit faster than this:

RewriteRule  ^mypage/(.*)/  mypage.php?u=$1
 

because it will stop as soon as it hits a '/' character rather than continue matching to the end of the string.

I also made the trailing '/' optional, since that's the behavior that Users would expect to see with 'normal' URLs.

[Markus]

I think he wants

www.mysite.com/users/userpage

to be recognised as this

www.mysite.com/users/?u=userpage

So he can run $_GET to retrieve the username

but he also wants the url to remain as

www.mysite.com/users/userpage

I recently asked about this - what you've got is absolutely spot on you just need to add one little bit! :

RewriteRule ^users/([\w])$ users/?u=$1 [L]
 

the [L] is what keeps the url as it is entered. :)