This configuration will do nicely

This site is a good start point for a number of useful apache configuration (htaccess) tips and tricks.

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html

A more structured but basic cheat sheet can be found here:

mod_rewrite Cheatsheet/

Another collection of tips:

http://www.thejackol.com/htaccess-cheatsheet/