.htaccess SEO friendly URLs - redirect to page

Question

i am looking at .htaccess files and have my site now redirect all links to SEO friendly links

eg

 http://example.com/index.php?page=1 to
 http://example.com/home/1/

by using the following code

 RewriteRule ^home/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,L]

but when i got to the page

 http://www.example.com/home/

i get a 404 error....

How can i get it so that when /home/ is accessed it automatically redirects to /home/1/

Answer 1

Try with:

RewriteRule ^home/?$ http://www.yourdomain.com/home/1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^home/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,L]

R=301 means that redirect is permanent according to HTTP status code