How to remove /~CpanelUserName from my .com domain url? - .htaccess

I just moved my website to VPS, but I noticed that it's adding my Cpanel username for some reason:
For Example: mysite.com/~CpanelUserName/articles/hello-world
I believe I have to do something to the .htaccess file
btw, I am using Drupal
Note: If I take out the ~CpanelUserName from the url, it does display the article

This should work for you
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^USERNAME/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Somehow this fixed itself when I uploaded an older mysql database backup. I checked my .htaccess file and it's the original, does not have the code #howlin provided. Seems like it was a database issue. Thanks #Howlin for trying to help. What caused this still remains a mystery.

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Looking for answer about Clean URLs that I have not found thus far

I am looking to clean up my URLs and I am having the most difficult time. I have an Apache server on GoDaddy. Not sure if hosting is the problem. I've uploaded many .htaccess files and none have worked.
Goal: I am trying to eliminate ".php" completely from my site.
Example: http://example.com/about.php and http://example.com/folder/anotherpage.php
I want it to read http://example.com/about and http://example.com/folder/anotherpage
How do I write a .htaccess file for this? All of the answers I've found deal more with parameters.
and nothing I've done seems to work. Is this a GoDaddy issue? Please help. Thanks in advance.
I think it should be as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule about about.php
RewriteRule folder/anotherpage folder/anotherpage.php

The requested URL /public_html/ was not found on this server

I'm working on a local MAMP website. I use a micro MVC framework to use friendly urls
so I don't need to call index.php (which is inside of public_html directory) in the urls.
To achieve that, I have the following htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !public_html/
RewriteRule (.*) /public_html/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
Then I have the following line in /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 mywebsite
Also, I have the following in httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mywebsite"
ServerName mywebsite
</VirtualHost>
So if I simply call http://mywebsite from the browser, the whole thing works smoothly.
So what's the problem?
The problem appears if I try to reach the same page from another machine in my LAN.
So if I write http://192.168.1.15/mywebsite the answer is:
Not Found
The requested URL /public_html/ was not found on this server.
I get the same message if I call http://localhost/mywebsite from my own machine.
I have the feeling that is something related to .htaccess, but I've been trying a
lot of different ideas I've found in the web, and nothing works.
I'd like to fix this, because I need other people to check the website from their machines.
If you have any clue please help. Thanks a lot.
Edit: I can't solve this, so as a temporary fix I've created a free account at AppFog for my team to be able to access the page until we go to production.
After all these years, I thought that computing would be easier... it's getting harder, actually. The htaccess file is a huge mistery to me! Thanks anyway :)
By the way... as I told you, I've found a way to fix the problem. The funny thing is I have to use a different .htaccess file. I thought you could be interested, provided that it seems you like computing stuff :)
This is the .htaccess that works in my LAN debian server:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(www/.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
As you can see, it's different from the one I showed you at my first post. My conclusion? Well, even when I always try to keep things simple, life shows me one and another time that everything can be more complicated. Look at the .htaccess file. It's so funny... I've learnt to work with it by using different combinations of code.
Isn't it crazy? Yes it is. Please let's do understandable software. Thank you!
Ok, I've been trying a lot of different things and all of them fail. The only solution I've found is to install the web site in a separated LAN debian server. Everything works ok in that way, but it's not possible to make it work from my machine with MAMP.
Why not? Well, I don't know. After a lot of years in computing, I've learnt to say "I don´t know", you know what I mean.
I've been working for a few days with an AppFog account for free but, you know, that thing cannot work when you put a database and the whole thing there. Obvious.
So at the end the only solution I've found has been to put everything at that local LAN debian server.
Thank you anyway :)

.htaccess redirect to subdirectory on Verio windows server

I've been trying to get a website up an running on my work's servers using Verio windows server 2003 gold and they've been quite useless when it comes to helping me out.
All I'm trying to do is set up a Wordpress installation, which they apparently require to be in a subdirectory. This is done and I have it in domain.com/wp ready to go. At this point they recommend that I use an .htaccess file to redirect to that url, so as they just sent me basically an "About .htaccess" link, that was of no help.
Did some searching, found a couple options like this one:
http://www.site5.com/blog/apache/htaccess/redirect-to-blog/20090427/
and nothing I use seems to work, not even as a straight redirect. Just gives me a "Directory Listing Denied - This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed."
I do want to mention I did enable URL Rewrite for IIS via ISAPI_Rewrite 3 in the control panel.
As I mentioned Verio support is useless and I can't seem to find anything searching that seems to help my situation.
So pretty much what I need is domain.com/wp to rewrite as domain.com so all links centered around it do the same (ie domain.com/about domain.com/contact)
Any help? Thanks
If I understand you correct you need your Wordpress application to be available from the root of your web site instead of /wp/ folder? Then please try following .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(?!wp/)(.*) /wp/$1 [NC]
By the way I think you could try simply copying /wp/ folder content to the root folder.

.htaccess not working in subfolder

I have a couple of sites that are currently under development and I've put them under a specific subfolder for clients/co-workers to view - "http://dev.staffanestberg.com/site-name/". I've run into some problems getting the sites working with .htaccess. I can reach the index page by typing in the url for a site folder but neither img/style/js/etc linking or page rewriting works. Looking for a solution to this, Apache's "RewriteBase" seems to be the most likely one, however I can't get it to work.
Tried
RewriteBase http://dev.staffanestberg.com/site-name/
RewriteBase /site-name
What would be the correct method?
Thanks in advance,
-Staffan
mod_rewrite’s RewriteBase directive does only apply to rewrites using RewriteRule. And that does only apply for requests that are sent to the server.
But if the requested URIs are already wrong, RewriteBase doesn’t do any help. What you could try instead is the HTML element BASE that set’s the base URI for the current document.

How can I redirect to a different domain without changing the URL in the address bar?

I want to redirect from:
domain1.com/photos
To:
domain2.com/photos
I want the URL in the address bar to still read:
domain1.com/photos
Is there a way to do this using only .htaccess?
Note:
My .htaccess file for domain1.com is currently completely blank.
No, there isn't a way to do this with .htaccess. Doing so would present a glaring security hole - imagine someone doing this with a bank's website!
If both are hosted on the same server, do this in your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain2.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>
If you own both domain1 and domain2, you could accomplish this through domain name forwarding. Check your domain name registrar (like godaddy.com) for the options.
No, you can not do it through htaccess file.
You could open an iframe in domain1.com/photos that shows the contents of domain2.com/photos. But then the url would never change from domain1.com/photos, even when you went to a different page in domain2.
What are you trying to do? It sounds very sketchy. Do you own both domains? Why would you want to duplicate the contents of one site at another address?
Why is this not possible? Seems like a reasonable task as long as your Apache has mod_proxy installed:
ProxyPass /photos http://domain2.com/photos/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
A way around it, if the page at domain.com/photos is a server side script, do an HTTP call and serve up the response.
In ColdFusion:
<cfhttp url="another.domain.com/photos">
<cfoutput>#CFHTTP.FileContent#</cfoutput>
They'll be an extra request, but it'll get you the output you want.
its impossible using htaccess file.

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