title: How to use mod_rewrite
body: <p>I have a site (sports.com, let's say) and I'd like to set up mod_rewrite so that a visitor to "football.sports.com/america" is shown content from "sports.com/stuff/place.php?id=america". I'd still like visitors to the naked "sports.com" to see "stuff/index.php".</p>
  
  <p>Sorry, I'm a real newb with this. I've tried and failed several times, heres what I have so far...</p>
  
  <pre><code>IndexIgnore *
  Options -Indexes
  
  RewriteEngine On
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} football\.sports\.com [NC]
     RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ stuff/place.php?id=$1 [L]
     RewriteRule (.*) stuff/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be massively appreciated.</p>