htaccess rewriting wrong

Question

I need to rewrite the following urls:

https://example.com/@example_user/ (with or without end slash) to https://example.com/main.php?user=example_user

And https://example.com/@example_user/config/ (with or without end slash) to https://example.com/main.php?user=example_user&site=config

I was trying with the follwing script:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^@([^/]+)/?$ main.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^@([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ main.php?user=$1&site=$2 [L,QSA]

But this happens:

• https://example.com/@example_user <-Works fine
• https://example.com/@example_user/ <-rewrites wrong https://example.com/@/@example_user/
• https://example.com/@example_user/config <-Works fine
• https://example.com/@example_user/config/ <-Rewrites wrong as https://example.com/@%251/%252

I tried everything I can, but I lack of more knowledge.

Answer 1

I understood that the problem was how the script handled the trailing slashes. So I solved the issue in the following way:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^@([^/]+)/?$ /main.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^@([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /main.php?user=$1&site=$2 [L,QSA]