Joost van Velzen scribeva in 2008-03-10 13:34: > Does anyone know how i can have the www part of an URL changed into > something I have in my database (e.g. a username)? > Can i do this with htacces, do I need to change some apache settings as > well? My first thought was "can't be done" - so I had to do some googling to see how it is done :-) I'm not an Apache guru, but hopefully can give you some pointers. You'd have to use mod_rewrite[0] to rewrite "www" to your liking. You can use it in .htaccess files, but it works faster in httpd.conf. That's the easy part... Getting mod_rewrite to talk to a db is the tricky thing. It could be using RewriteMap[1]. There's also mod_dbd[2][3], but I don't really know anything about it :-} However, in his blog Nick Kew says: "I’ve just added SQL database-based lookups to mod_rewrite’s rewritemap feature, using Apache DBD."[4] Hopefully these links give some help. And once you get this thing working, please remember to tell us how :-) .k [0]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html [1]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap [2]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dbd.html [3]http://apache.webthing.com/database/ [4]http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/interesting-new-apache-features/