Nice url structure

Question

I have a website in different languages, where "James" is the hypothetical person that's logged in. It has this logic.

Spanish

www.example.com/es/Login.php
www.example.com/es/Account.php
www.example.com/es/UpdateAccount.php
www.example.com/es/Logout.php

I want to make it look like this

www.example.com/
www.example.com/James 
www.example.com/James/UpdateAccount
www.example.com/James/Logout

Is this possible?

Exposing the file names shouldn't affect the security in any way. If you're still worried please post how you think this may affect your site negatively and we might fix the real security issue(s) — JimL, May 23 '16 at 14:30
What do you mean by "nice"? Just removing the `.php` extension? — Olaf Dietsche, May 23 '16 at 20:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '16 at 15:05

Use the following as your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\S{2})\/(\S+)$ $2.php?lang=$1

This will redirect you to the requested page for example:

http://www.example.com/es/Login

becomes

http://www.example.com/Login.php?lang=es

then load your language files based on the $_GET['lang']parameter.

And btw exposing the extension of your files is not harmful for your application's security.

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