mod_rewrite guru around?

[eSology]

I have an index.php in my root directory that pulls content from sub-folder. The URLs end up looking like this: http://www.domain.com/?page=some-page-name where some-page-name is the name of the sub-folder. I want to use mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file to rewrite so the URLs look like this: http://www.domain.com/some-page-name.htm

Anyone have an idea? I have read and reread some many articles trying to figure this out.

[DNGeeks]

This is an example and won't work "as is". It will take some modifying. You may also need to modify each page or the code for the pages to support the new styles of links.

note - i am NOT an expert, I simly copied these from a script I currently use and modified them slightly.

rewriteEngine on
rewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^page-(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html page.php?cat=$2&pg_which=$3

or

rewriteEngine on
rewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^page-(.*)-(.*).html page.php?id=$2

[Banned: luvkycool]

basically
http://www.domain.com/?page=some-page-name
means
http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=some-page-name

so
index.php?page=$1
then look to what to rewrite
([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)

so you get
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]*).html index.php?page=$1

happy rewriting

[eSology]

Thanks folks. I ended up using this to get it to work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm /?page=$1