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

Answer 1

If I understand, you want your end users to enter example.com/home and have that rewritten in to /index.php?home?

RewriteEngine On
# /home or / get redirected...
RewriteRule ^(home)?$ /index.php?page=home [L,QSA]

To debug, you can enable the RewriteLog. However, as suggested in the comments it should be used for debugging only. It is best to disable it or set the level very low in production.

RewriteLog "/path/to/logs/rewrite.log"
# Increase the log level (default 0, >4 gets pretty verbose) 
RewriteLogLevel 3