Apache Mod Rewrite for Pretty URLs isn't working

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to do an apache mod_rewrite to remap $_GET.

What I\'m trying to accomplish:

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Answer 1

You could try this:

RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9_-]{1,40})/?$ index.php?URL=pages/$1.php

Though ideally you might want to get rid of the "pages/" part of the query string variable, as this fixed constant could be handled by the index.php script.