url redirect exact match including params - .htaccess

i would like to make a 301 redirect and from an old website using the exact exact url with no extra parameters.
example:
/en-direct.php?page=7
to go to:
http://www.example.org/news/
and page:
/en-direct.php?page=8
to go to:
http://www.example.org/awesome-but-totally-different-page/
i used:
redirectMatch 301 ^/en-direct.php$ http://www.example.org/different-page/
redirectMatch 301 ^/en-direct.php?page=7$ http://www.example.org/news/
redirectMatch 301 ^/en-direct.php?page=8$ http://www.example.org/awesome-but-totally-different-page/
however: i get http://www.example.org/different-page/ every time with all the parameters from the redirect page (example - http://www.example.org/different-page?page=7 )
any help will be much appreciated.


In order to match against the query string, you need to use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=7($|&)
RewriteRule ^en-direct\.php$ http://www.example.org/news/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=8($|&)
RewriteRule ^en-direct\.php$ http://www.example.org/awesome-but-totally-different-page/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^en-direct\.php$ http://www.example.org/different-page/ [L,R=301]

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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+)=29
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