title: How do I rewrite www.sitename.com/thing/thing.php?otherthing=something-like-this to www.sitename.com/something-like-this?
body: <p>How do I rewrite </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>www.sitename.com/thing/thing.php?otherthing=something-like-this </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>to </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>www.sitename.com/something-like-this?</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>please help me with this as I can't seem to succeed. My host uses apache  2.2. Many thanks for your help!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>No I don't need that trailing ?  However, I used the Rewrite rule you offered me and it still ain't working. I also added a RewriteEngine On before the rules.</p>
  
  <p>I have Linux hosting, .htaccess and the code is obviously semantically correct, cause otherwise I would get the all so popular 500 internal server error. I placed the .htaccess file in the folder thing and in the root of the site, but it still won't work.</p>