Let's say I have this URL:
http://example.com/users.php?name=tania
And I want this URL:
http://example.com/users/tania
I can do so with the following .htaccess
:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?users/(.*?)/?$ /users.php?name=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /users\.php\?name=([^\&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^/?users\.php$ /users/%1? [L,R=301]
I can even still GET the URL query.
users.php
<?php
echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . '<br>';
print_r($_GET);
/users/tania
Array ( [name] => tania )
Alternatively, you could redirect everything to index.php
and route it that way.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?url=$1
That's all!