Hey everyone! Hopefully this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to work on a redirection for a blog-like script, and I figured .htaccess would be the best way. Every user will have their own link such as mywebsite.com/acooluser and rather than make a folder for each user, I'm going to use the rewrite function.

Now I came into a problem on folders that do exist and can be navigated to, so I wanted code that would skip the folders that exist, but if they didn't exist, it would redirect to the profile page and show that person's information.

Here's what I'm using right now:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}	!-d	
RewriteRule ^.*[/]$ 			/purefm_v2/djs.php?did=$1	[NC,L]

The problem is, the RewriteRule never gets called. It's as if all directories exist because it tries to go to a non-existing one and issues a 404 error. Does anyone know what I missed?

The problem is, the RewriteRule never gets called. It's as if all directories exist because it tries to go to a non-existing one and issues a 404 error. Does anyone know what I missed?

what is the directory it tries to go that is causes 404 error?

Hi,

I wanna do like this

article ID = x
article title = "how to do"

and user read this article by user URL:

.../read_article.php?id=x

pls give me rule to change it to (how to get title?)
.../articles/how-to-do.html

Thanks

thanks for the help! it dawned on me while answering "kids" question that my query was demanding for an end forward slash which I didn't want to have in my URL, so I changed it to this but now I get a Internal Server Error:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}	!-d	
RewriteRule ^.*[/]?$ 		/purefm_v2/djs.php?did=$1	[NC,L]

is there a way to write this so that I don't require a forward slash in the end?

oh, and to answer your questions kids:

RewriteRule ^articles[/]([a-zA-Z0-9]+).html$ read_article.php?title=$1 [L]

that's your only option with .htaccess. It can't execute queries so you'd have to have your read_article.php select the id based on the title