Rewrite requests with variables to a directory to root

[sonofamarzipan Profile]

Hi, I've been struggling with this for may hours after reading and trying to grasp the bascis of rewrite.

In short, a user has an id for example sonofamarzipan and the url without rewriting would read

http://www.website.com/mydir/index.asp?id=sonofmarzipan

It should rewrite to:

http://www.website.com/sonofamarzipan and http://www.website.com/sonofamarzipan/

The closest I have come to getting it to work is with:

RewriteRule ([^/]+)/$ /mydir/index.asp\?id=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /mydir/index.asp\?id=$1 [NC,L]

But this also rewrites every directory on the domain instead of only the /mydir/ directory.

So I think this is something with

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mydir

But I don't know how to get this working with the correct RewriteRule to get the http://www.website.com/sonofamarzipan and http://www.website.com/sonofamarzipan/ result.

Can anyone help me with this? I think I am close...or at least near the right track?

[Anton]

Hello,

You are right, you are close.
Please try the following rules:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /mydir/index.asp\?id=$1 [NC,L]

[sonofamarzipan Profile]

Thank you so much Anton. This was great!

I'd been trying to use this (http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/) but I think the syntax might be slightly different for htaccess so it was incredibly hard to try to test and make the break through.

But now I learn a little more. Thanks again for this. Really appreciate your time and effort in replying.