Question about QUERY_STRING redirects with mod_rewrite

[Tiago Marques <tiagomnm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm trying to do 301 redirects from a website which used queries extensively but doesn't use any now. I found this piece of code but it doesn't seem to work.

> RewriteEngine on 
> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=13$
> RewriteRule ^/page.php$ http://www.example.com/newname.htm? [L,R=301]

All the examples I found are very similar to this one but I can't get any of them to work, it simply keeps the ?id=13 part and doesn't rewrite the url.

Am I doing anything wrong or has something changed from one mod_rewrite revision to another?

Best regards,

Tiago Marques