.htaccess and GET

[The Little Guy]

When I use this in my .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?user=$1 [nc]


and I echo out user like this:
echo $_GET['user'];

The following result is placed on the page:
index.php

here is dir structure:

+root
|
+-- album
| |
| +-- .htaccess
| |
| +-- index.php
|
+-- index.php.


I am trying to access the index.php page inside the album dir

[scragar]

the rewrite rule is a regular expression, surely you can set it to work on anything other than album.

^(^album)$

ofcourse this won't pick up the sub files/folders, but you can set it to something like:

^(^album(/.+)?)$

to allow sub folders(can't remember if forwardslash has a weird effect.

[The Little Guy]

I can not get those to work. It doesn't display the page, I just get a 404.

mine displays the page, but not the GET


I am not searching any folders, I am just searching a database which holds all the files that are in the album.

[The Little Guy]

Anyone?

[Jeff Mott]

Try this instead.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php$
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?user=$0