How to get desired URL

[bandy]

Hi there,

pardon me or suggest me the tag for this question.

I have developed a website, using Twitter API. Now a little but important problem i am facing is expected url.
There will be users on my site who are going to get details with their user name.

My site url is : www.mysite.com/
it also works on : www.mysite.com/home.php
and : www.mysite.com/FinalShow01.php

Now what i want is user should be searched when he enter his name as : www.mysite.com/username


I also tried this thing on server cpanel, but could not get it done.

Please Help!!!

[dlite922]

You need to use URL rewrite to check if no file exists (or check that username is not shaped like a file), then rewrite it to something like "?user=username " hand it off to a php page that will check it against a database, IF no user is found, a 404 should be displayed.

Look into your server's url rewrite features.


Dan