Rewrite an url with htaccess

Question

I would rewrite an url

http://mydomain/index.php?s=profil

to

http://localhost/profil

I have try this in my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /index.php?s=$1 [L]

But not work (error 500).

Answer 1

Enable mod_rewrite before the RewriteRule:

RewriteEngine On

Answer 2

I guess you wanted your url http://urdomain.com/profile to show content from http://urdomain.com/index.php?s=profil , an example of how you do it is this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule    ^content/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    index.php?s=$1    [NC,L]

This rule will redirect your page urdomain.com/content/Alphanumeric123 to index.php?s = $1

Explaination:

[a-z] - lower case characters
[A-Z] - Upper case characters
[0-9] - numbers