I need to rewrite my site url for seo reason. For example current "about" page url of my site is http://localhost/beautiful/?option=content&cat_id=1&itemId=1.sf I want to rewrite it as http://localhost/beautiful/content/about I have tried it with the following htaccess rule RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^beautiful/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ beautiful/index.php?option=$1&cat_id=$2&itemId=$3 [L] it's not working. can anyone help me?