rewrite joomla pagination sef url with htaccess

I want to rewrite my link from

http://my-domain.com/category/article?page=2

to

http://my-domain.com/category/article/page-2

i try this rule in htaccess

RewriteRule ^article/page-([0-9]+)$ article?page=$1 [R=301,L]

with Rewrite Engine On and remove # before RewriteBase

But it doesnt work

Please Help