.htaccess rewriting

I know this has been brought up in previous posts, but I did think I
understood the basic principals of rewriterule etc until I tried it...

my understanding was/is

RewriteEngine On // Turns on the rewriting option
RewriteBase /test/ // sets the directory for rewriting so rewriting only
happens within the lower directories of /test/
RewriteRule A B // find regex A and replaces it with B

is this correct ?

I am trying to replace part of my url as follows...

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/test/?p=article&id=1

replace "?p=" with "" (nothing)
replace "&id=" with "/"
to create a static looking url

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/test/article/1

my .htaccess file looks like...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /test/
RewriteRule ^(\?p=)$ ^$

this excludes the &id= part as I thought I would deal with the ?p= first

Questions.
Should the .htaccess file be in the root or in /test/ or both?
Are my assumptions correct about the behaviour of the 3 commands?
Why isn't it working?

I have looked at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mod_rewrite.html but
it is hard getting those details into my thick head !!

Alex


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