Question

how can i redirect all requests coming on

foo.bar.com/some-thing

to be redirected to

foo.bar.com/some-thing-else

also can you please hook me up to some good learning resources for learning htaccess, i am very new to this development stuff.

Regards.

Edit
following is the code i have been trying with (without success)

RewriteRule ^some-thing?$  index.php/some-thing-else [QSA,L] 

Answer 1

try something like this :
in the .htaccess put this :

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)-thing?$  index.php?route=$1-thing-else [QSA,L]

in the index php put this for testing :

<?php echo var_dump( $_GET ); ?>

browse to your site ie http://localhost/some-thing or http://localhost/dirty-thing.

hope you can modify this to your exact needs.