how to do a 301 redirect in htaccess?

Question

i have this links and i want when someone goes to it to be redirected:

http://www.xxxxx.com/model_me.php?id=16

i did this, but id doesn't work:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=16$
RewriteRule ^/model_me.php$ http://www.xxxxx.com? [L,R=301]

any ideas?

thanks

Answer 1

Try dropping the leading slash in the RewriteRule as below

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=16$
RewriteRule ^model_me.php$ http://www.xxxxx.com? [L,R=301]