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California pilchardOP
Hi guys, I have a problem with my match. My actual one is :
matcher: ['/((?!api|_next|_vercel|.*\\..*).*)']

But I have this route /user/[username]
But my username can have dot int it, so if I go to : /user/loup.hello I have an 404 page because I dont know that the route corresponding to /user/[username]. TO fix that Ive try this matcher :
matcher: ["/((?!api|static|_next|favicon.ico|robots.txt)(?!.*\\/[^\\/]*\\.[^\\/]{2,4}$).*)"]

Its working that break access to some file like the /sw.js (service worker in public folder). So I dont know which matcher I have to set....

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California pilchardOP
Well I dont find anything about my issue, Im not the only humain to use dot in slug ahah ?
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James4u (Tag me if needed)
yeah they usually use hyphen instead
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California pilchardOP
But website like Instagram, Tiktok and others, they use dot in username
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James4u (Tag me if needed)
yeah, then you should update your middleware matcher and it must be a pain I believe
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California pilchardOP
I found a way and its working !
export const config = {
  matcher: [
    '/((?!api|_next|_vercel|.*\\..*).*)',
    // User pages
    '/@:username/:path*',
  ],
};

I have a rewrite for /user/[username] to /@:username so now its working adding special case in matcher