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What literal characters should be escaped in a regex?
RewriteRule ^profile/[A-Za-z_-\d\^\.]/*$ ./index.php?page=showuser&username=$1
I am new to mod rewrite. Could someone tell me what's wrong with my pattern here? I am trying to only let names passed in that have characters, numbers, -, ^, _ and . symbols but it will give me an error when I use that syntax.
4 things:
+
after your character class :)-
character in caracter classes at the beginning fo the class(also, you don't need to escape anything else than ]
inside a character class)
RewriteRule ^/profile/([-A-Za-z_\d^.]+)/*$ ./index.php?page=showuser&username=$1
Try
RewriteRule ^profile/([\w\d\.^_-]+)/?$ ./index.php?page=showuser&username=$1
It might be better to use
RewriteRule ^profile/([\w\d\.^_-]+)/?$ /index.php?page=showuser&username=$1
if your index.php file is in the top (root) of your public folder.