Simple htaccess mod_rewrite question

Would someone please help me with a rewrite rule to go from

http://domain.com/search.php?q=search+terms

to

http://domain.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=search+terms


Thanks in advance for any help.


*Edit: I'd like it to produce a 301 response too

 

Here you go :

RewriteRule ^search\.php\?q=([^/\.]+)$ /cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

It produces a 301 Permanently Moved response too.

 

Thankyou, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

Here is what I have in there;

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search\.php\?q=([^/\.]+)$ /cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

Oh, I forgot that RewriteRule doesn't look at the query string. Here you go :

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=([^/\.]+)$
RewriteRule ^search\.php /cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=%1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

Thanks for trying again, but I managed to get it sorted out using another method.

I found out that rewrite rules don't work with cgi-bin URLs on most hosts... as the cgi-bin isn't below the htdocs folder.

I ended up creating a file search.php and just put this in it;

header("Location: http://domain.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$q",TRUE,301);

 

The above mod_rewrite solution should've worked too.(I'd encourage you to try it).

But I'm glad you've been able to solve it by yourself.