Please help with htaccess

I am trying more than 2h! and I give up

How make .htaccess for this:

I want mysite.com/abc from mysite.com/index.php?query=abc

mysite.com/MYTEXT ===>>>> mysite.com/index.php?query=MYTEXT

 

to be redirected from mysite.com/index.php?query=MYTEXT to mysite.com/MYTEXT
... or just look like mysite.com/MYTEXT

is a script ?

 

I want good links like mysite.com/abc
and these links will run mysite.com/index.php?query=abc in fact

thanks in advance

 

i think is a script and i think is more than changing the .htaccess

 

newzone

When I open mysite.com/ABC i want text ABC in the title for example ...

 

you want seo friendly url ,
mysite.com/dance, mysite.com/jazz e.t.c ...

I'm sorry i don't know how i said , because if is a script like phpld (example) can't be done only with .htaccess

 

Sure it can... there's a sticky at the top of this section with hundreds of people asking exactly the same question as you and receiving answers.

The short version is:

RewriteRule ^abc$ index.php?query=abc [NC]

Code (markup):

You can do much smarter stuff with rewrites but that will give you what you want.

If you want everything to go through index.php then you need a slight change:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query=$1 [NC]

Code (markup):

Don't forget to turn the rewrite engine on in the first line of your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

Code (markup):