. It is essential that the page only loads in this format “www.sample.com” All inner pages should be like www.sample.com/innerpage . rewriting the URLS for SEO purposes
Are you generating the URLs with PHP? If so, you should have a look at something similar to:
http://www.logon2.com.au/blog/archive/web-design/php-apache-mod-rewrite-tutorial/
http://evolt.org/Making_clean_URLs_with_Apache_and_PHP