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What literal characters should be escaped in a regex?
RewriteRule ^profile/[A-Za-z_-\d\^\.]/*$ ./index.php?page=showuser&username=$1
I am new to mod rewrite. Could someone tell me what's wrong with my pattern here? I am trying to only let names passed in that have characters, numbers, -, ^, _ and . symbols but it will give me an error when I use that syntax.