change url with .htaccess

Question

I have an url in the following format:

http://example.com/realestate/index.php?page=services.html

How can change it to the following format with a .htaccess file?

http://example.com/services.html

So that index.php?page= is omitted and only services.html part is shown in the browser's url.

I dont know anything about writing .htaccess files.

Answer 1

Try something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)\.html http://example.com/index.php?page=$1 [L]

Now the url xyz.com/services.html would be rewritten to xyz.com/index.php?page=services.html