: Regex Needed to allow mod-rewrite rule to work either with or without trailing slash? Given the following rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^user/([^/]*)$ /userprofile.php?user= [L] How can I have it

@Pierce454

RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)(/?)$ /userprofile.php?user= [L]


The above rule should match on these conditions:


user/123
user/123/


It will not match:


user/fred
user/123fred
user/fred123


([0-9]+) means match any numeral with one or more digits.
(/?)$ means an optional match of a slash, followed by a mandatory end-of-string.

For extra credit, you can even use this:

RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]{1,9})(/?)$ /userprofile.php?user= [L]


Which tells it to match numbers between one and nine digits (the {1,9} thing). Useful as an input-validator.

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