301. htaccess redirect not working due to regex

Question

I have a little bit of trouble with a redirect

I'd like to redirect every incoming traffic from

http://domain.com/?friends=7 to http://domain.com/win

I am using this rule, but it does not seem to work.

RewriteRule ^\?friends\=7$ /win [R=301]

Answer 1

You can't catch a query string with a RewriteRule you need to use a RewriteCond for this task:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^friends=7$
RewriteRule ^$ /win? [L,R=301]

You can test your RewriteRule using this tool