Htaccess problem

Question

I have just created a htaccess file and entered the following

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/profile/([0-9]+)\.html /profile.php?id=$1

This is giving me a

500 Internal Server Error

Any ideas why?

Thanks

Answer 1

use this in your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)\.html$ /profile.php?id=$1 [NC,QSA,L]