mod rewrite

so i am having a little trouble wrapping my head around mod rewrite,

i would like to rewrite an affiliate link that usually looks like
http://www.domain.com/page.php?xyz=1

where xyz=1 is the affiliate ID number,

what i would rather show is

any help would be great!
thanks

listenmirndt,

You will want yoru site to work with:

AND .. for mod_rewrite to work:

This way, you can write a rewrite to push that to page.php.

There is a tutorial here that may help you.