Need help with htaccess RewriteRule

I have no idea about htaccess RewriteRule. I'm expecting someone here can help me with this.
I need to send users from the firstline -to- secondline. Please help me with these three:

// directory is alpha numeric
images/newfolder/index.html
-to-
images/index.php?directory=./newfolder/

Code (markup):

// pagenumber is numeric only
images/1/index.html
-to-
images/index.php?pagenumber=1

Code (markup):

images/sample-file-name/index.html?number=0&directory=./newfolder/
-to-
images/index.php?directory=./newfolder/&number=0&filename=Sample File Name.jpg

Code (markup):

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^images/([^.]+)/index\.html$ images/index.php?pagenumber=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)/index\.html$ images/index.php?directory=./$1/ [L]

Something has to be unique in each of them. aka...images for one of them. For something like

images/sample-file-name/index.html?number=0&directory=./newfolder/

mod_rewrite is worthless cause it's still not very search engine friendly, after the index.html.

er, you should get rid of the index.html part.

 

Thanks a lot. I'm gonna try this now.

BTW, is it better to use index.php instead of index.html or it's better to remove index.html?

EDIT:

I get a blank screen.
However, when I use full url for the latter part, it does work but the url in address bar changes to index.php?....

Can you help me again plz?

 

I would just get rid of the index.html

Is

domain.com/images/#/index.html

the full URL you tried? And mod_rewrite doesn't change the links, the script has to be edited to do that.

 

nintendo, is there a variable that can be used in the .htaccess file to refer to the directory that the .htaccess file is residing in?

thanks for your time.

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /directory/
RewriteRule ^$ wacko.php [L]

is for for example making /directory/wacko.php and /directory/ the same.