htaccess - What is rewrite rule for a wildcard string after the base?

For instance, I want www.example.com/mr.chase to redirect to www.exapmle.com/index.php?name=mr.chase

Currently, I use a symbol (a period) so that it matches a symbol first before checking the rule.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^\.([^/]+)/?$   index.php?name=$1 [NC]

The above works. However, if I remove the \., it will APPEAR to work (successfully redirects), but I receive values I do not expect.

I use PHP, and find that $_GET['name'] produces index.php instead of mr.chase.

I only have issues grabbi开发者_开发技巧ng my GET variables when the base is a wildcard, and there is nothing else to match. Insight would be great! I apologize if I'm on the wrong track here.

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I don't understand your example, and neither what the \. and not matching discussion was about. But to prevent index.php from showing up as parameter a simple assertion should do:

 RewriteRule ^(?!index.php)([\w.]+)/?$   index.php?name=$1  [L]
 #                 ^         ^
 #                 |         |
 #               exclude     |
 #                          only letters and dots

If that doesn't work it's an issue with your setup (FastCGI sometimes incurs additonal rewriting). Or another RewriteRule matches (= clear everything but above example, and the .htaccess files in upper directories). And for further debugging look into $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] and the other variables for details.

Set up the RewriteLog if you cannot find the cause with these tips.

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It's because of your ^ matching the begginning of the string. It's looking for a period as the first character. Remove the ^

Also, a better pattern may be this:

/(.*?\.?([^/]+))/?$

This will match 'mr.chase' instead of just '.chase'