Changin viportals.com/statssig.jpg?uid=1 -> viportals.com/statssig.jpg w/ .htaccess??

i have my site's stats sigs located at

http://www.viportals.com/statssig.jpg?uid=1

however, i do not want people to see other members' uids so they can steal them. how can i change statssig.jpg?uid=1 into statssig.jpg?

i know it has something to do with RewriteRule in .htaccess, but i cannot find out exactly how to use it in this advanced way.

the only thing that will change in the link b/w members is the number at the end, so how would i make .htaccess change a variable? right now i have:


here is what i want (i just dont know the syntax for variables in this language which i never knew of before today):


any1 know how to work this?

EDIT:
it must also end in .jpg because for forums (like this) it is an invalid file otherwise.

Huh? What you're asking doesn't make sense. You want to specify a parameter but keep it hidden?

If you want to keep UIDs secret, it sounds like you aren't confident in the security of your login system.

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no i just thought it would be nice if other members could not fake as another member without knowing their exact uid. its actually pretty stupid, scratch that. however, maybe viportals.com/statssig1.jpg would work, if that could be transformed to statssig.php?uid=1.

however, i do need the .jpg at the end, again, for some forums to accept it.

(isnt she a beauty)

Try this:

wow sick man! ima try that. u know ur .htaccess! do you recommend a better method for this, or is my idea amazing? like statssig1.jpg vs another name?

Nothing better comes to mind.

hrmm getting 404 error.

and why does:

work with the php and

(without www) only show the image and not the php???

Are you sure mod_rewrite is enabled?

read above, it should be bcuz it works for the other file (if there is a www, dont know why was hoping you could answer), but here is what i have:


and http://www.viportals.com/statssig1.jpg is what i want to use (not sure if thats what you coded)

so in the .htaccess code, i want (\d+) and $1 to be the same thing, i want the statssig1.jpg to turn into statssig.php?uid=1, and for uid 2 statssig2.jpg -> statssig.php?uid=2

By the way, the image is in GIF format, not JPEG format.

I don't see why it would make a difference, but try this:

nope :S

and it shud be jpeg, thats what i header it and i saved it as a .jpg

The parentheses make a matching sub-expression. The "\d" means any numerical digit (0-9). The plus sign means there needs to be one or more of them. The "$1" means the first matching sub-expression.

@Jeremy Any ideas?