Remove query string and make clean url using htaccess

Question

I have url's like following with query string. I want to remove query string from url and want to make clean url.

www.demo.com/following.php?user=hardik
www.demo.com/fans.php?user=john

This url's should be like

www.demo.com/hardik/following
www.demo.com/john/fans

OR should be like

www.demo.com/following/hardik
www.demo.com/fans/john

Is this possible with htaccess? I tried to find a loot in google but still no luck. Need help.

Update:

I need something like this

www.demo.com/user/hardik/following/
www.demo.com/user/john/fans/

I tried like this

RewriteRule ^user/([^?]*) following.php?user=$2/ [L,QSA]

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-28 10:15:34Z

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You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^user/(\w+)/(\w+)/?$ $2.php?user=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

edited Nov 28, 2014 at 10:15

answered Nov 28, 2014 at 7:58

anubhava

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anubhava Over a year ago

Q1. What is location of this .htaccess file? Q2. Are there more rules in this file? Q3. What happens when you enter: www.demo.com/following/hardik in browser?

Hardik Over a year ago

file location is on right place on root. There is one rule for removing index.php. And i see page without css loading.

anubhava Over a year ago

Page without css is different problem, you need to provide all details. For that just use absolute path in your css, js, images files rather than a relative one. Which means you have to make sure path of these files start either with http:// or a slash /. You can try adding this in your page's HTML header: <base href="/" /> so that every relative URL is resolved from that URL and not the current URL.

Hardik Over a year ago

I check in browser view source and see there is already full url in css/js

Hardik Over a year ago

This is redirecting to 404. #RewriteRule ^user/([^*]+)/following following.php?user=$1 [L,QSA] this code working for me.

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Bo A · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-28 08:00:18Z

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Try with this for a url like www.demo.com/following/hardik

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_-]+)/([a-zA-Z_-]+)/?$ $1.php?user=$2

edited Nov 28, 2014 at 8:00

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answered Nov 28, 2014 at 7:55

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Hardik · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-08 13:29:59Z

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Finally this is working for me for my last requirement. May be help someone else.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^user/([^*]+)/following/$ following.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^user/([^*]+)/fans/$ fans.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

answered Dec 8, 2014 at 13:29

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