.htaccess - Pretty User Profile URLs

Question

I want to make my user profiles \'pretty\' as it were. Here is the regular URL:

user.php?user=UserName

I want this to become:

user/Username

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Answer 1

Try these directives:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)$ user.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

This rule rewrites any request with a URL path of the form /user/foobar internally to /user.php?user=foobar.