Why Is Rewrite Rule Throwing Error Message "Moved Permanently?"

This is a follow-on to this question https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29120630/How-To-Enable-Rewrite-On-Linux-2.html - I followed the advice but forgot that wordpress will overwrite what is within the wordpress block so I am now moving it out of the block.

# END W3TC Page Cache core

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} controller=product [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id_product=26 [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?index\.php$ /product/geranium-15-ml-100-pure-essential-oil/ [NC,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} controller=cms [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id_cms=([0-9]+)\%3F [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?index\.php$ /index.php?controller=cms&id_cms=%1 [NC,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} controller=product [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id_product=([0-9]+)\%3F [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?index\.php$ /index.php?controller=product&id_product=%1 [NC,R=301]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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The first re-write rule produces this error:  

https://gyazo.com/9741f64223879ee3f42407f1985e4d5e

The other 2 rules work fine so why is this rule not working and producing this error?