How to rewrite url using .htaccess

[neovantage]

hey all,

can anybody tell me that how can i rewrite this URL

http://74.52.129.114/~happybox/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1

into this

http://74.52.129.114/~happybox/about-us

kindly help me out to sort out this issue.
i will be really very grateful

[Dormilich]

I think that’s rather mapping, than rewriting …

[neovantage]

And now what you mean mapping..? If you are using this word in domain sense then just leave it cos i am not going to run it on any domain.

[Dormilich]

I mean it in the following way: you have a key phrase "about-us" and this is assigned a value phrase "index.php?opti on=com_content& task=view&id=1" but there is no logical relation between the two, so you need a kind of associative array/hash table to do this "mapping" without writing everything into the .htaccess file itself.

[Markus]

A RewriteMap is maybe the way to go here, or if you're only wanting to map a few URLs, maybe instead use a RewriteCond.