How would I use mod_rewrite to turn this query string request in to a clean url?

Question

How can I use mod_rewrite to take http://www.site.com/events?pg=4 and turn it to a clean URL, like so: http://www.site.com/events/4 ?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Something like this should do the job:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)$ /events?pg=$1 [L]

What it's doing is:

1. Turning on the Rewrite engine
2. Matching any request that has the form events/something
3. Storing the 'something' (the brackets indicate that the match should be stored)
4. Redirecting to the ugly form using the stored variable.
5. Preventing any further rules from being applied ([L])

Hope this helps.