Redirect URL which contains "option=com_virtuemart"

Question

I want to 301 redirect some URLs which contain "option=com_virtuemart". I tried with this code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_virtuemart RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

But it doesn't work.

Answer 1

The code is working, but the server is disabled htaccess controll..