Clean URL htaccess

Question

I want to make my website links to be changed from that

http://www.example.com/index.php?a=page&b=about

to that

http://www.egysocial.tk/about

and i want to redirect my old URL to the new one. Thanks

Answer 1

Try:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\?a=page&b=([^&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?a=page&b=$1 [L]