Friendly URL help

[chrisguk]

Hi all!

I have the link below which I created to test the functionality of the script I wrote. But because the rest of my site is setup with friendly or extensionless URLs, I want to do the same with this one:

{
                                                                echo "<a href='meta-paginated.php?page=$i'>$i</a> ";
                                                        } 

This is the current rewrite rule I have in my .htaccess which works fine for normal links:

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^/.]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

So the question is,because I cant work it out.

1. What would the regex be for this scenario?

2. How would I need to change the link to work with the new rewrite rule and still select ?page 1,2,3,4,5, etc etc. The page ID is always a number?

Many thanks in advance. If you are kind enough to provide the solution would you be able to explain how you get there so I can learn and pass on my knowledge to other forum users in the future?

Just to add:

Okay,

This is the link in a raw format:

meta-paginated.php?page=$i

This is what the URL looks like:

http://test.com/meta-paginated?page=2

This is the rule I think it should be but not completely sure:

RewriteRule ^meta-paginated/(.*)/(.*)/$ /meta-paginated.php?$1=$2

I am also not sure of the LINK construct that is why I havent listed it here.