Rewriting URL with .htaccess local in XAMPP

Question

My .htacces begins with

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /

(I tried it also without RewriteBase...)

I tried all of the following

Answer 1

Here's the solution to change links from http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=blog to http://www.domain.tld/blog is:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^\w+$ index.php?page=$0 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=(\w+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /%1? [R=301,L]

and for links like: http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=single_news&id=1&headline=This%20Is%20A%Headline

the solution is:

RewriteRule ^blog/(\d+)-([\w-]+)$ index.php?page=single_news&id=$1&headline=$2

After using this code, links looks like this: http://www.domain.tld/blog/2-this-is-a-headline