htaccess redirect + rewrite

[Gozil]

hello,
I have been looking for a solution to redirect the users to the correct urlrewrite page but I cant come up with anything thats working.

This is how I rewrite it now:

RewriteRule ^(search)/(.*)$ search.php?id=$2 [L]

so basically the user could search like this:
search/something

the problem is that I need to redirect them from search.php?id=something to search/something

I tried to add [R=301] but that didn't work, I didn't have any luck with redirect 301 either.

Any ideas on how to get this fixed?

[pbmods]

Heya, Gozil.

Do a print_r($_SERVER) for each URL and see which value you can use to find out which URL the User typed in.

If I remember correctly, there are a couple of URL-related $_SERVER variables that mod_rewrite does not affect.

[Gozil]

But isn't there a way to redirect them from the .htaccess file at once?

[Markus]

Try changing the flag to [R], although I'm not understanding your problem fully.