Redirect 301 i just can not get it to work

[zeus]

I have 5 versions of my frontpage, which is bad of cause, so i want to make a 301.

This one:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

works great, but the next i need to redirect is:

/index.php?cat=chcat3
and 3 more like that, but it dossent matter how i do this it dont work, im no expert in apache, so maybe im doing something wrong.

[g1smd]

Make room in the RewriteCond RegEx pattern for the

\.php\?cat=chcat3\ HTTP/

parameter to be detected.

Additionally change the

.*

pattern (two places) to

([^/]+/)*

as that code runs a LOT faster.

[zeus]

could you make the code as it should be, im not quiet sure if i get it, also thanks for the reply.

[zeus]

could anyone create a code for this, I dont get it to work, thanks in advance