.htaccess help

Hi, I'm looking for a few lines in an .htaccess file to help me do the following and include a 301 redirect

rewrite
"http://www.computerbb.org/ftopic(numvar).php"
to
"http://www.computerbb.org/about(numvar).html"

rewrite
"http://www.computerbb.org/sutra(numvar).php"
to
"http://www.computerbb.org/post-(numvar).html"

rewrite
"http://www.computerbb.org/forum(numvar).php"
to
"http://www.computerbb.org/forum-(numvar).html"

thanks

http://www.ozzu.com/programming-forum/quick-tip-mod-rewrite-t23460.html <-- That post I made should help, but incase it doesn't you can do something like this:

Ohh wait I see what you're doing (I think). Look in the .htaccess file for something like this:



You only need to change the first part, from the ^ to the $ to change what you type for the url to get the second part (ftopic...$1). The patern remains the same for each one.

I'm not sure how the mod does it but they might also have (.*) instead of ([0-9]+)

what does the L and NC do?

edit, the code you supplied doesnt work

Ok, well the 'L' stands for 'last', which would stop the rewriting process.
The 'NC' stands for 'no case', which would make a-z and A-Z be exactly the same.