Name Space

[tonkatruck]

Hello

I am trying to make it so my users could go to
http://www2.somedomain.com/firstname.lastname

and would be redirected to

http://www.somedomain.com/mypage.phtml? ... l=lastname

I've written the following, but suck at regex and am only getting a 500 Error.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([a-z]*).([a-z]*] http://www.somedomain.com/mypage.phtml?firstname
=$1&lastname=$2 [R]

It's in the .htaccess file in the root of www2.somedomain.com

[Brett]

Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z]*).([a-z]*) http://www.somedomain.com/mypage.phtml? ... astname=$2 [R]

I made the following changes:
(1) Deleted initial slash
(2) Changed . to . (since . just means "any character")
(3) Changed final square bracket to a right parenthesis

You might also want to use [a-zA-Z] to allow for the possibility of uppercase letters.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Brett on 2001-12-07 21:39 ]</font>

[tonkatruck]

Thanks Brett,

I also was having trouble because I was trying to apply the rule in the .htaccess file and needed to have it in the DIRECTORY block.

-Phil