rewrite urls

hi,
i need to rewrite my urls for sef/seo.
i already does that but was some time ago and i don´t remember how...
want i need to do is when a user enter this links:
www.teste.com/name
the apache is working with this url:
www.teste.com/index.php?folder=name
i know that i need change the htacess but i don´t remember
what i need to change
thanks a lot for your help

 

Put this in you .htaccess file


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?folder=$1

 

I would put this in the .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?folder=$1

This way it will only rewrite if the file or folder don't exists, sometimes you want to be able to access files or folder directly.