How to remove question mark from URL

Question

Is there any way I can remove the question mark from URL? Now lets say that the URL can be http://www.domain.com/profile?a=10 but it can also be http://www.domain.com/profile?b=ticket.

So in the first case my URL should be http://www.domain.com/profile/10 and in the second http://www.domain.com/profile/ticket.

But I still want to be able to use $_GET in PHP. So what I really want is to remove the question mark only to the user, but in the server it should work the same. Is there any way I can do this, probably using htaccess. I am running apache2 as my webserver on Ubuntu 14.10.

What will ```a```and ```b``` look like? Will ```a``` always be a number and ```b``` not? — Samuel Lindblom, Mar 28 '15 at 21:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '15 at 20:31

Yes you can do it with .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^profile/([^.]*)$ profile.php?a=$1&b=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

where profile.php will be your PHP code that handles both the cases.

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