htaccess doesnt redirect? Need advice

[magnetica2]

Hi

 

Im trying to redirect an old search page which was domain.co.uk/?q=search but now it's domain.co.uk/search?q=search. I have the code below but nothing happens. I'm pretty sure that this is close to right but i'm not an expert with the htaccess file so any advice would be appreciated. I do use CodeIgniter but I don't believe that would affect the code.

 

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\?q=(.*)$

RewriteRule ^\?q=(.*)/$ search?q=$1 [R=301,L]

 

 

Also just so you know I am using the code below to remove trailing slashes and that works fine.

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)/$

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]