Mod_rewrite redirect issue - .htaccess

Question

I have this .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/galerie$ galerie.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/galerie/$ galerie.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/galerie-(.*)_(.*)$ galerie_poze.php?user=$1&album=$2&page=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/galerie-(.*)_(.*)/$ galerie_poze.php?user=$1&album=$2&page=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*).php?$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]
and it doesnt seem to work.
Here is my problem: when I want to access a page on my site e.g. site.com/test.php,
it redirects to index.php?request=test. The problem is that I also have "profil.php" and "galerie.php" that I dont want to pass through index.php. Instead when I do this: site.com/username/profil, I want it to point to profil.php?user=username, but it doesnt work.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

i've put something like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)\.php?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php?$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/personal$ personal.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/personal/$ personal.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/galerie$ galerie.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/galerie/$ galerie.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/galerie-(.*)_(.*)$ galerie_poze.php?user=$1&album=$2&page=$3 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/galerie-(.*)_(.*)/$ galerie_poze.php?user=$1&album=$2&page=$3 [NC]
and when i do /username or /username/profil it works BUT it no longer works with the first rule id i do sitename.tld/test.php it doesnt work....

Answer 2

You want one of your two first rules to match [username]/profil (where it now matches [username] and [username]/)
Try
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/profil$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC, L]

Answer 3

Use conditionals.
Make sure the file or directory doesn't exist:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
You can also restrict redirects by using something like:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/profil\.php$ [NC]
Make sure to properly escape.
This needs to be escaped:
RewriteRule ^(.*).php?$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]
Like:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php?$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]
Also,
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]
Can be simplified to:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ profil.php?user=$1 [NC]