I'm trying to get the following to work. When an URL is hit on my server (like www.domain.com/qwerty) I want it to call a file show.php?key=qwerty When I add the following htaccess code I sort of got it to work, but only when calling the server like this: www.domain.com/A/qwerty Code: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^A/(.+) show.php?key=$1 Looking at the above htaccess code I thought that just removing the A/ would do the trick, but this is not so (when running it I only get the value key=show.php) So.. Any htaccess expert here how could show me how to make this work?