Change a URL with mod_rewrite

Question: My current website URL looks like http://mydomain.com/index.php?page=creative. How can I remove the index.php and question mark to make it look more like a regular page address?

Answer: If your web server is Apache, you should be able to do this with mod_rewrite. If you have a shared hosting account, first make sure that your web host has enabled mod_rewrite. Then, create an .htaccess file or edit your current one, placing the following strings inside it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+).html$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

The above will change http://mydomain.com/index.php?page=creative to:

http://mydomain.com/creative.html

This will make it easier for users to remember your URLs and possibly for search engines to index them.

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