.htaccess fix for a pretty permalink in PHP?

Question

Maybe I\'m going about this in the wrong way, but I have some pages in our homegrown CMS that I want to convert to using pretty permalinks. Currently, their page URLs look t

Answer 1

If there's nothing in the query string you can omit QSA:

RewriteRule articles/(.+) articles/?permalink=$1 [QSA,L,B]