URL rewriting using htaccess

How to rewrite the url in htaccess

www.mywebsite.com/category.php?name="richard" change to www.mywebsite.com/richa开发者_开发技巧rd/

You can use below code to achieve your requirement.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} name=(.*)
RewriteRule category\.php$ /%1/

Hope this helps you... :)

Are you used any PHP frameworks(like the codenigter... etc)? You can try this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /category.php/name=$1 [L]