mod_rewrite freaks ... I need your help!

[screamfine]

I have an URL like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?_id=just-a-test

I want to rewrite this into the following:

http://www.mydomain.com/just-a-test.html

My .htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^-]+)-(.+)\.html$ index.php?_id=$1&_news=$2 [L] 
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ index.php?_id=$1 [L]

The problem is:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?_id=just-a-test
becomes:
http://www.mydomain.com/das.html ("a-test" is missing...)

All hyphens and parameters get lost ... what am I doing wrong?

I'm looking forward to your replies!

Thank You!

P.S. My Apache version is: Apache/2.0.50 (Linux/SUSE).

[dotcomgiant]

Not sure, you may try something like :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_-]+).html index.php?_id=$1 [L]

[csmaster2005]

http://www.tutorialplace.com/search....l%20Categories has a good tutorial lol. sorry for repost but it is a helpful list