Need some help for conditional rewrite

[cooldude832]

I am trying to revert all my sites php pages like so

http://www.mysite.com/pages/page5.php

to

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=pages/.page5.php

 

I wrote

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes 
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond {REQUEST_URI} !=index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ index.php?id=$1 [R]    

but it makes an infinite loop any ideas?

 

doing this

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes 
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond {REQUEST_URI} !=index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ index.php?id=$1 [R,L]    

gives me the incorrect $1 (its always index)