htaccess rewrite url and remove question mark

[eluser]nabasa[/eluser]
Hi there,

I need an htaccess 301 redirect for dynamic urls going from this url:

http://www.example.com/index.php/?content/page1

to

http://www.example.com/content/page1

My current htaccess rule is:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=""
RewriteRule ^index.php(/.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301]

the problem is I get urls like this:

http://www.example.com/?content/page1

How can I remove that question mark (?) from the url. Also this is for about 20 different urls in this pattern. I would like the rule to work for all my urls needing to be 301 in this pattern.

My problem is google has a bunch of urls with the index.php/? in them, and I need to 301 redirect them to the clean pages... but I keep getting the ? in the url.

Can anyone give me a good htaccess rule to make this work for my clean CI urls?

Thanks,

Sean