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I'm making a blog site and instead of the users blogs being called /blog?display=username I would like it to just be a sub domain such as mysite.com/username

How would I be able to make the first URL look like the second URL?

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Er... That's not a subdomain. A subdomain would be username.mysite.com. – Álvaro G. Vicario Jul 23 '11 at 16:33

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Place this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog?display=$1 [L]

This will redirect each URL which do not corresponds to an existing file (!-f) or existing directory (!-d) to the corresponding blog?... URL. [L] makes the rewriting stop here (in case you have more rules). See the mod_rewrite Guide for details.

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Thanks that looks really helpful, Thanks would you be able to explain what the symbols mean so ill be able to edit this as I want? – Joel Jul 23 '11 at 15:21
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@Joel: Have a look at httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite (and some of the pages linked from there). – Paŭlo Ebermann Jul 23 '11 at 16:22
Another resource which may be useful: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mod_Rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask – danlefree♦ Jul 24 '11 at 9:15
@zgold: Thanks very much for the help. The exact URL I am trying to get is joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/theblogsnamehere to joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/blog?display=theblogsnamehere I've put this in the .ht access file which doesn't seem to be working RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$ RewriteRule ^$ joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/blog?display=$1 [L] Sorry this comment seemed to remove my link break, should I start a new question? – Joel Jul 24 '11 at 23:04
Realized I missed off .php from the rewrite rule, still doesnt work though – Joel Jul 24 '11 at 23:18
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You are probably looking for mod_rewrite. It's easy, just put this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog?display=$1
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You can use the PATH_INFO variable. More here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html

Previous answer (using Request.PathInfo) was tarted at asp.net -- thanks for pointing that out.

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ASP.NET is not really applicable on Apache, is it? – Paŭlo Ebermann Jul 23 '11 at 16:28
Oops -- thank you -- I've modified the answer. – kuru kuru na... Jul 25 '11 at 14:47

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