How to use mode_rewrite function

I'd like to know, how I can use php's function mode_rewrite correctly. I'm currently developing with xampp. I've activated LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so in the httpd.conf file. Also I edited following lines:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

In my .htaccess file, I've following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /?m=$1 [L]

So it should change ?m=start to ?start.html. When I now open localhost/page/start.html, it only shows me "It works". But why doesn't it show me the content from localhost/pag开发者_运维技巧e/?m=start ?

A further question would be, how do I change the rewrite rule, that I could access localhost/page/?m=start&set=update through localhost/page/start/update.html?

Thank you for an answer!

You are using the absolute path / in your substitution. So when using this rule in the .htaccess file in /page/ a request of /page/start.html will actually be rewritten to /?m=start and not /page/?m=start.

Try a relative path instead:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ ./?m=$1 [L]