WP - Adding Custom Rewrite Rule - wordpress

I'm trying to add a custom rewrite rule for my WP site so http://example.com/?u=sample-output, is rewritten as http://example.com/sample-output.
The rewrite rule I'm trying to add is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /?u=$1 [L]
The existing rewrite rule is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
When I add it in, it gives me a 404 error when I visit the page. I'm guessing this is because of a conflict. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.


Based on your comments, put the rule above the WP rules and then you can do something like this. And all URLs that will go to the query string would have to use /start/ in it. Then make sure to ignore /start/ in the WP rules like below for all others.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^start/([^/]+)/?$ /?u=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/start [NC]
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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