Remove the profile.php?name=Username from url and replace with profile/Username

Question

I have a problem with my php file. I want to make a site and have the url look like this

domain.com/players/username

i have my folders set up like this: domain.com/players/players.php?username=johndoe

inside the main folder (domain.com/players/index.php) i have a search form that posts to the players.php file so that I want to make it able to search for a player by his username

So -> Remove the /players.php?username=johndoe and change it to /players/johndoe that a user can view their profile at domain.com/players/johndoe

Thank you everyone for the help and sorry if this is a bad question

Brandon Roberts · Answer 1 · 2015-10-03T02:48:47.630

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Something like this should do the trick,

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# Turn on the engine:
RewriteEngine on

# Set the base to this directory:
RewriteBase /username/

# Redirect certain paths to player.php:
RewriteRule ^(username)/?$ players.php?username=$1

</IfModule>

This is a htaccess file, so you also have to make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled on your server's httpd.conf file.

Hopefully this gets you going in the right direction.

edited Oct 03 '15 at 02:48

answered Oct 03 '15 at 02:18

Brandon Roberts

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You're closing a directive that you didn't open in your code: ``. – Gustavo Straube Oct 03 '15 at 02:38
Snap, your right, it was included in the file I copied it from. I'm not sure at what point that it was deleted... Thanks – Brandon Roberts Oct 03 '15 at 02:42
Thank you for the reply, but sadly it's not working. I want to have a /player site that has a form and then /player/username that has the profile i have been trying almost everything has been ending up in errors – Ruxie Oct 03 '15 at 02:42
as i said your httpd.conf file may be blocking mod_rewrite permissions. and to Gustavo, I had opened it, but whenever i used ctrl+k to make my text code i did not have the top directive selected. Again, thanks for pointing that out – Brandon Roberts Oct 03 '15 at 02:46
is your website on a live or local server? – Brandon Roberts Oct 03 '15 at 02:46
It's on a live server right now – Ruxie Oct 03 '15 at 02:53
Do you have full access to the httpd.conf file? – Brandon Roberts Oct 03 '15 at 02:56
My webspace is on my root server but I'm not sure where that file is – Ruxie Oct 03 '15 at 02:59
okay Well I hate to have you do something you are not comfortable with, but i can send you some excerpts from my book that explains it pretty well if you like – Brandon Roberts Oct 03 '15 at 03:01
Could I please add you on skype? – Ruxie Oct 03 '15 at 03:05
hey, hows the site going bro? – Brandon Roberts Aug 12 '16 at 04:43

Remove the profile.php?name=Username from url and replace with profile/Username

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