.httaccess not working

[SBSP]

I'm trying to convert ugly url parameters
from

viewtutorial.php?id=10

to

viewtutorial.php/10

using mod_rewrite.
the .httaccess file is in the root and when i add junk text to it it wont load any pages, that's how I know appache is loading .httaccess

My .httaccess file looks like this.

# basic compression
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	mod_gzip_on Yes
	mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ viewtutorial.php?id=$1
</IfModule>

when i try to visit viewtutorial.php/10 the page seems to load without successfully grabbing data from mySQL

What am i doing wrong ?

I followed this
http://www.the-art-of-web.com/system/rewrite/1/

 

[_kabal_]

The url you would use for that rule would be http://localhost/123
Which would rewrite to http://localhost/viewtutorial.php?id=123

 

[SBSP]

The url you would use for that rule would be http://localhost/123
Which would rewrite to http://localhost/viewtutorial.php?id=123

So I should change

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ viewtutorial.php?id=$1

to

localhost/viewtutorial.php?id=$1

 

[_kabal_]

No. Keep the rule as is, it is fine.

Just access the page in the browser as http://locolhost/10 instead of http://locolhost/viewtutorial.php/10

 

[SBSP]

No. Keep the rule as is, it is fine.

Just access the page in the browser as http://locolhost/10 instead of http://locolhost/viewtutorial.php/10

Thanks _kabal_ it worked,

By modifying it to

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.html$ viewtutorial.php?id=$1

it now appears as a normal .html page.