re-write URLs

[morestar]

mydomain.com/?L=registration.register

i've looked and tried but haven't been able to find a way to use .htaccess to re-write the above URL and like URLs as such

mydomain.com/registration/register

or

mydomain.com/registration/


the same for such URLs like mydomain.com/?L=search.users

currently turkish hackers (as they call themselves) are searching for URLs with the ?L within it. there is a security exploit within the CMS I'm using and frankly this is getting tiresome.

Any and every bit of help is appreciated.

Thank you

[wige]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/registration/register$
RewriteRule ^/registration/register$ /?L=registration.register [L]

[morestar]

ok well thank you tons wige,
question: with respect to seo, i don't have to 301 my urls now do i ?

[morestar]

hm, that didn't work.
i tried revising it to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?L=registration.register
RewriteRule ^registration/register$1 [L]

that didn't work, for some reason i seem to never be able to get rewrites to work properly.

[wige]

Hm, try just this then:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/registration/register$ /?L=registration.register [L]

The first parameter is the URL the user is entering, after the domain name, and the second parameter is what that URL gets converted to.

[morestar]

no that didn't work either.
i think it may have something to do with the directory the .htaccess file is in.

i even tried to use the full path to my site to no avail.