Myujth

I am doing some .htaccess settings to improve SEO with semantic URL's. Currently when you go to the semantic URL www.website.com/profile/exampleusername it works perfectly although i am still able to access the same page without any red alarms rining with the pure get request in the url. www.website.com/profile?username=exampleusername.
I have tried to user both the redirect and RedirectMatch but i can't get it to work.

Here is the relevant code from the .htaccess

RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST /profile.php?username=([^s&]+)&buddy_identifier=([^s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^profile/%1/%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1&buddy_identifier=$2 [L,NC,QSA]

I want to be able to go to www.website.com/profile?username=exampleusername and then be redirected to www.website.com/profile/exampleusername

Full .htacces

RewriteEngine on
Options -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks -Indexes

 RewriteCond %ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS ^$

 ############# REMOVE FILE EXTENSION #############

 RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME !-d
 RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME.php -f 
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

 RewriteCond %REQUEST_METHOD !POST
 RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST s/+(.+?).php[s?] [NC]
 RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,NE,L]


 #####

 ######## ONLY ACCESS BY HTTPS://WWW.* AND NO EXTENSION #############
 #commented bcs of dev workspace localhost

 #RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST ^(GET|HEAD) /([^/]+).php(?| |$)
 #RewriteRule ^ /%2 [L,R=301]
 #RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%REQUEST_URI [L,NE,R=301]

#RewriteCond %HTTPS off [OR]
#RewriteCond %HTTP_HOST !^www. [NC]
#RewriteCond %HTTP_HOST ^(?:www.)?(.+)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%REQUEST_URI [L,NE,R=301]


############# INDEX RENAME #############

DirectoryIndex gamingbuddy.php


################### SEMANTIC URL ######################

### URL FOR GAMES.PHP ###

RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST /games.php?game=([^s&]+)&game_style=([^s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^games/%1/%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^games/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ games.php?game=$1&game_style=$2 [L,NC,QSA]


### URL FOR PRIVATE PROFILE ###

RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST /profile.php?username=([^s&]+)&buddy_identifier=([^s&]+)s [NC]
RewriteRule ^profile/%1/%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1&buddy_identifier=$2 [L,NC,QSA]

You can use these rules:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %THE_REQUEST /profile(?:.php)??username=([^s&]+)s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /profile/%1? [R=302,L]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?username=$1 [L,NC,QSA]