Apache redirect username to profile page conflict - apache

Question

I am trying to write redirect rules which will redirect usernames to profiles pages. The problem is I don't want to use extra parameter to determine that current url is for user. If I use example.com/user/test pattern then there is no problem. But I want to use example.com/test pattern.
The problem is also other pages uses this pattern beside user profile. For ex. example.com/messages. But these other pages are only a few. Hard coded exceptions should be fine on redirect rules.
Here is what I use for redirecting.
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /index.php?page=profile&username=$1 [L]
But for urls like /messages/, /login/, /settings/ I want to use this rule.
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]
Another problem when I remove ending slash from first redirect rule
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /index.php?page=profile&username=$1 [L]
Like this, redirect loop happens. Actually I don't want to have ending slash but I fixed temporarily by adding it.
I am not sure if this affects other redirect rules but also I want to redirect index.php to ``.
To sum everything up I am listing what I am trying to do.
example.com/index.php => example.com
example.com/index.php?page=messages => example.com/messages
example.com/index.php?page=options => example.com/options
example.com/index.php?page=profile&username=test => example.com/test
Thanks.

Answer 1

Found it myself!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/404
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/messages
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/login
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/logout
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/options
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/deposit
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/profile
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=view-profile&username=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]