Rewrite URI with query string, somewhat recursive

Hello list,

I'd like to rewrite /index.php?id=tutorials so that it goes to
/tutorials. Further, /tutorials should then rewrite so that
/index.php?id=tutorials loads 'behind the scenes' (ie, /tutorials is
the canonical URL).

Here are my rules from httpd.conf. Right now, loading
/index.php?id=tutorials redirects to /index.php/ (no idea why). Note
that commenting out the last two rules has no effect. Currently,
rewriting /tutorials to index.php?id=tutorials seems to work; but I
need to go the opposite way too.

Thanks,

Brett

RewriteEngine on

# index.php?id=tutorials should go to /tutorials <-- support old
bookmarks
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=tutorials$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /tutorials? [R]

# tutorials (with no slash) then goes to tutorials/
#RewriteRule ^/tutorials$ /tutorials/ [R]

# tutorials/ (with slash) should load the tutorial index
#RewriteRule ^/tutorials/$ /index.php?id=tutorials [L]

One other note: there exists a directory /tutorials for this server,
but it's being used to serve included content (it's not accessible
directly). Not sure if this is a problem, since the rewrite to
/tutorials (with index.php?id=tutorials loading in the background)
seems to work fine. But perhaps this directory should be renamed,
moved, or made inaccessible.

Brett

On Jan 7, 3:29 pm, "therearenoteams" <therearenote....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'd like to rewrite /index.php?id=tutorials so that it goes to
> /tutorials. Further, /tutorials should then rewrite so that
> /index.php?id=tutorials loads 'behind the scenes' (ie, /tutorials is
> the canonical URL).
>
> Here are my rules from httpd.conf. Right now, loading
> /index.php?id=tutorials redirects to /index.php/ (no idea why). Note
> that commenting out the last two rules has no effect. Currently,
> rewriting /tutorials to index.php?id=tutorials seems to work; but I
> need to go the opposite way too.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
>
> RewriteEngine on
>
> # index.php?id=tutorials should go to /tutorials <-- support old
> bookmarks
> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=tutorials$
> RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /tutorials? [R]
>
> # tutorials (with no slash) then goes to tutorials/
> #RewriteRule ^/tutorials$ /tutorials/ [R]
>
> # tutorials/ (with slash) should load the tutorial index
> #RewriteRule ^/tutorials/$ /index.php?id=tutorials [L]