Htaccess Help

[kensbeijing]

Options +FollowSymLinksRewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://profile.example.com/index.php?user=$1

I'v looked through many examples on htaccess files for redirect but not one of them work properly for my situation.I'm trying to make a member page where you can easily direct to a member's profile using a simple url e.g. www.example.com/jonny, but on the server side it goes to profile.example.com/index.php?user=jonnyThe one I am using at the moment will redirect, but it also changes the url in the address bar to the complicated one.What I need is an htaccess file that will redirect:www.example.com/jonnywww.example.com/jonny/example.com/jonnyexample.com/jonny/to profile.example.com/index.php?user=jonny but leaving the simple www.example.com/jonnySorry this isn't really php but there isn't a forum for htaccess files.

[chibineku]

Hm..I think unless your server supports virtual domains and profile.example.com is virtual, you can't do it, because you're pointing to a different domain entirely - subdomains don't share directories or anything, so I'm not sure you can do it, otherwise I could rewrite something like example.com to example.google.com. It may be something that can be changed on the server, I don't know enough. The rules themselves would be easy enough, but wouldn't work without redirecting to the subdomain:RewriteEngine On#change example.com to www.example.comRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]#translate example.com/jonny to profile.example.com/profile.php?user=jonnyRewriteRule ^example.com/(.*)$ profile.example.com/profile.php?user=$1

[kensbeijing]

Hm..I think unless your server supports virtual domains and profile.example.com is virtual, you can't do it, because you're pointing to a different domain entirely - subdomains don't share directories or anything, so I'm not sure you can do it, otherwise I could rewrite something like example.com to example.google.com. It may be something that can be changed on the server, I don't know enough. The rules themselves would be easy enough, but wouldn't work without redirecting to the subdomain:RewriteEngine On#change example.com to www.example.comRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]#translate example.com/jonny to profile.example.com/profile.php?user=jonnyRewriteRule ^example.com/(.*)$ profile.example.com/profile.php?user=$1

Oh that's why it didn't work. Ok I have another idea, if example.com/jonny isn't a real directory, how do I redirect it to profile.example.com/jonny (but server side it's profile.example.com/index.php?user=jonny?

[chibineku]

RewriteRule example.com/(.*)$ /profile.example.com/index.php?user=$1 [R=301,L]That ought to do it, I think.

[kensbeijing]

Ok I'v hit another wall Well if I do this:RewriteRule ^user/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ user/index.php?user=$1&page=$2The location of the index page seems to move to a fake $2 directory, which means all my style sheets are in the wrong place. My style sheet atm is at "style/style.css", so the more fake directories I make e.g. /([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$, the further away the style sheet gets. The only solution that I know to this is put the full url of the style sheet "http://example.com/user/style/style.css" which isn't very practical if I change the location of them.

[chibineku]

just add a leading forward slash to all your relative links: /style/style.css