Htaccess url rewrite help please

[Sifat3d]

My pages have urls like:

cows.com/?go=cowdung

i want to use htaccess and in such a way that,
when a user types into his/her web browser :

cows.com/cowdung

htaccess uses the mod-rewrite(rewriterule) and takes the user to:

cows.com/?go=cowdung

CAN THIS BE DONE? if yes, then please someone write me the htaccess code please. I have no idea how to use the htaccess. Please help.Just in case:"the cows.com domain does NOT BELONG to me, i just used it as an example."
Thanks in advance.:-)

Added after 8 minutes:

And it cant just be for

cows.com/cowdung

becomes>>

cows.com/?go=cowdung

it has to work for any value.like

cows.com/anything

becomes>>

cows.com/?go=anything

CAN THIS BE DONE? if yes, then please someone write me the htaccess code please.

[subzero]

Rewrite cows.com/(.*)^ $cows.com/$1

[Sifat3d]

Int. Server error

Doesnt work:-(

Rewrite cows.com/(.*)^
$cows.com/$1

My whole site becomes unavailable and says:
500 internal server error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfig . . . . . .
My server is Apache-1.3.27 is this due to the backdated server?

[subzero]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R]

Try this one

[razzbee]

There should be something after the cow.com like example : cow.com/cowdung => cow.com/page.php?go=cowdung

RewriteRule ^cow\.com\/(.+)$ /page.php?go=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Note that,for it to work easier for U,U have to provide the page name ,thus the page.php

The L means LAST ,which ends that particular RewriteRule,
the NC means NO CASE that is,it should work no matter the case of the characters(capital or small characters)
The QSA means Query String Append means the url is having a query request (that is : ?go=blahblahblah)

Example of a site of rewrite Rules is : http://adrazz.net :D

[ogah]

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule \/(.*?)$ index.php?go=$1

if your page not automaticaly redirected to new URL, add this code to your index.php

if(isset($_GET["go"]) && strstr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], '?')) {
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://yourdomain/'.$_GET["go"].'">';
// or use php header location to redirect
exit;
}

[Sifat3d]

Thanks. razbee bro gave me simpler solution.:-)

Thanks to ogah, thanks to razzbee, thanks to subzero. All of u were a lot of help. :-)

[razzbee]

:D U are welcome,just click thanx.....

[Sifat3d]

No thanks button in mobile :-( i browse the net 4m mobile with limited bandwidth.