.htaccess basic mod rewrite

Question

I am only just starting to learn how to rewrite urls with the .htaccess file.

How would I change:

http://www.url.net/games/game_one.php

into this:

http://www.url.net/games/game-one/

This is what I have been trying

RewriteRule    ^/games/game-one.php    ^/games/game-one/    [NC,L]

Answer 1

If you want people to use /games/game-one/ explicitly, you have to rewrite so that it requests /game/game-one.php. So the opposite way around than you have it in your question.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^games/game-one/$ /games/game-one.php

If you want to rewrite other URL's too, then you'd need to use a technique similar to the prior answer.