mod_rewrite: how to discard tail of the URL?

["Sennott, Mark" <MSennott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running RHEL4 update 3 with Apache/2.2.4

 

I want to redirect this:

 

http://foo.bar.com/search/search-events.front?keywords=&x=35&y=6

 

to this:

 

http://foo.bar.com/events/

 

 

I am using this rewrite rule:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.bar.com$
RewriteRule ^/search/search-events(.*) http://foo.bar.com/events/ [L]

 

The problem is that the redirect returns this:

 

/events/?keywords=&x=35&y=6

 

 

 

How the heck do I discard the tail end of the URL??