How to write a rewriterule in htaccess? [closed]

Question

I am working on a Wordpress project. I created a page just like author.php and need to pass parameters to it and want the address to look like the authors url (http:// somesite.com/author/thisguy) - let us assume my new page is xyz.php and I am passing http://somesite.com/xyz/thisguy

I read somewhere that I couldn't use the wp_rewrite because it is used only with index.php and my page is xyz.php

Therefore I'm trying to do this with .htaccess file.

I need to interpret (alias / RedirectMatch) this: http:// somesite.com/xyz/thisguy as http://somesite.com/xyz.php?myname=thisguy

Currently my .htaccess file looks like this: (Note that it has a rewrite mention for the membership plugin S2Member but I don't think it matters)

# BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)s2member_file_download\=.+
    RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1]
</IfModule>
# END s2Member GZIP exclusions

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I tried:

RewriteRule   ^xyz/(.*)$ xyz.php?myname=$1

but didn't work.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^xyz/(.*)$ xyz.php?user=$1