How To Use Mod Rewrite to Clean Up URL's

If you have not enabled or setup Mod Rewrite Then Read This Guide Here.

Ok so lets compare these:

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?p=contactus

With the power of the mod_rewrite apache module, we can make this URL much cleaner.

http://www.yoursite.com/contactus.html

so now that you get the idea, here is how the above can be accomplished:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+).html$ /index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

Now If you wanted your URL to look like a directory, you would use this line instead of the previous line:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

This would return:

http://www.yoursite.com/contactus/