php - Simple Mod Rewrite

Question

I'm trying to create a mod rewrite to simply turn these links:

/index.php?page=home
/?page=home

into

/home

Can someone show me how this is done? While we're on the subject, are there any good resources to read up on mod rewrite? My biggest struggle so far is that I don't see any way of debugging it; things either work or they don't.

Answer 1

There are a variety of ways to do this. This one applies the rule to any non-existent file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Edit: You may have to add RewriteEngine on at the top, and this goes in .htaccess in your web document root. All of this, of course, depends on whether use of htaccess (mod_rewrite) is allowed by your web host and whether the rule override file should be named .htaccess. Both are pretty common though, so it shouldn't be a problem.