Does anyone have any experience of using mod_rewrite and regexp ?
It's just that I have a piece of software I use in college that uses
mod_rewrite and I'm having problem with users with a dot / period in
there usernames.
The line that is causing the problem is this one
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]
So from what I can understand if you call
www.brian.co.uk/brian it
actually calls
www.brian.co.uk/user.php?username=brian or what ever
variable is set as $1, I'm not sure what the L,QSA mean but I could
google that bit :-)
Now this works fine for me with a username of brian but if someone like
john.smith tries to login they get a 404 error.
Is it possible to alter the rewrite rule to allow periods ?
There are only two people who login without the period (me & one other
tech) so if the rule can only allow dotted usernames that's not a
problem as I can alter how the two of us login.
Thanks
Brian
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