ht access confusion

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
Hi all

I've recently built a site in CI and its working great.

The thing is we're getting a load of old links back using query strings.

Now the sites structure has changed and we need to redirect 301 to these new pages.

I know how to do a simple 301 redirect using htaccess but as some of the have query strings thats not working.

this is what i have so far.

Code:

http://www.example.co.uk/about.php?page=1&item_id=1

i need that and any variation to go to

Code:

http://www.example.co.uk/about

this is what i have working so far

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=(\d+)$
RewriteRule ^/about.php$ http://www.example.co.uk/about? [L,R=301]

but i can't seem to get it working with the second parameter

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Bug