rewrite url

eg for www.students.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/studentsFolder/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?students.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ studentsFolder/$1
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ studentsFolder/profile.php?user=$1 [L]


Hello I have multiple domains from my hosting server. My site is contained within a folder called studentsFolder.
The following .htaccess file placed outside of 'studentsFolder' works, so that when you tpye www.students.com you will get the index homepage file from within the studentsFolder. This works fine.

However I also want it so that should you type
www.students.com/TypeAnythingHere
for it to rewrite the url to open the file
studentsFolder/profile.php?user=TypeAnythingHere

I thought this line would work...

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ studentsFolder/profile.php?user=$1 [L]

but it doesn't. Any ideas.
Sorry I know this isn't really the right forum for this.

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