.htaccess remove the page and leave the query

Question

I want to change

http://example/index.php?name=phone

to

http://example/phone

I tried this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?name=$1

It actually allows me to use example/phone but it's not forcing a redirect when I use example/index.php?name=phone I want to be able only to get to the clean url. When I write the non-clean url it should redirect me to the clean url.

Edit

i'll try to simplify the question . what i want is when i write

example/index.php?name=phone

it redirects me to

example/phone

and of course , 'phone' is a variable .

Answer 1

here you go :

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /index.php?name=$1 [L]

Answer 2

This works :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?name=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?name=$1

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?name=$1