I'm trying to set up my site so that users can have a "vanity url". To do this, I added the following rewrite rule to the htaccess file: RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)[^.]$ view.html?id=$1 [nc] Here's what this does. If the user goes to http://www.domain.com/vanityurl it will Rewrite the url to view.html?id=vanityurl If the filename has a dot in it, like .html, .htm, or .php, it will ignore the rule. Hopefully this helps someone out there on the interwebs.