Is is possible to do this in PHP (redirection) ?

[Star]

Hi,

I would like to do the following.
If the user types this URL in the browser:

http://www.mysite.com/john

I want it to be redirected to http://www.mysite.com/showuser?user=john

The same if the user types a different name, for example:
http://www.mysite.com/michael
In this case, I want it to be redirected to
http://www.mysite.com/showuser?user=michael

The thing is I don't want to create a different folder for each user.

Thanks a lot!

[Ewoud Dronkert]

On 2 Mar 2005 09:45:56 -0800, Star wrote:

http://www.mysite.com/john
I want it to be redirected to http://www.mysite.com/showuser?user=john

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

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[Star]

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

On 2 Mar 2005 09:45:56 -0800, Star wrote:

http://www.mysite.com/john
I want it to be redirected to

http://www.mysite.com/showuser?user=john
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

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Thanks for the information. The problem is I don't own that server, so
I cannot change its internal settings. I just can upload php pages.
Is there anything that I can do?

Thanks

[Matt Mitchell]

"Star" <st*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@z14g2000cwz.googlegro ups.com...
: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html
:
: Thanks for the information. The problem is I don't own that server, so
: I cannot change its internal settings. I just can upload php pages.
: Is there anything that I can do?

As long as rewrites are permitted on the server, you can do them using
..htaccess files. If they're not permitted, you'll get a 500 error page...

Some of the stuff on that page is for httpd.conf files, but what you're
asking about can be done through .htaccess

Matt

[Star]

Thanks, Matt. I'll try that.

Could anybody give an code example of what I need? I checked the page
that Ewoud Dronkert gave me,
but I'm very novice with PHP pages, and in that page there are all kind
of rules and I cannot find the one that I need.

Thanks a lot.

[Ramius]

Star wrote:

Thanks, Matt. I'll try that.

Could anybody give an code example of what I need? I checked the page
that Ewoud Dronkert gave me,
but I'm very novice with PHP pages, and in that page there are all kind of rules and I cannot find the one that I need.

Thanks a lot.

I'm a bit of a novice with RewriteRules myself, but I _THINK_ the
following will work. Your webhost will have to have mod_rewrite and
allow .htaccess files, but many hosts do. Just place it in a file
named .htaccess (note the leading dot), and see what happens. Make
sure you've created a showuser.php file also, of course. Note that
this does a transparent redirect, that is, the browser URL bar will not
update with /showuser.php. The redirection occurs silently
server-side.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z])$ /showuser.php?user=$1 [QSA]

[Star]

Ramius, thanks for your answer.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I got an 404 error message that says:

Not Found

The requested URL /john was not found on this server.

Any hints?

Thanks

[Matt Mitchell]

"Star" <st*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
: Ramius, thanks for your answer.
:
: The requested URL /john was not found on this server.
:
: Any hints?
:

Put a /showuser.php script on the server!

Matt

[Star]

Matt, of course, I have that file on the server.