.htaccess: mod-rewrite; subdomain

Question

I am working on a new website bud I want to create a nice looking urls for my users. I don\'t know anything of htaccess and could not find my solution on google

Answer 1

Using mod_rewrite, you can try:

RewriteEngine On

# the request URI doesn't already start with /users/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/users/

# host doesn't start with www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.  [NC]

# host starts with something else
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.mywebsite\.com$  [NC]

# rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /users/%1/$1  [L]

This will make it so when someone enters http://joe.mywebsite.com/some/page.html they will be served the file in /users/joe/some/page.html