url-rewriting

I have the following rule: <rule> <from>^/users/(.*)$</from> <to last="true">/users.do$1</to> </rule> And I want to match the following url: http://localhost:8077/users/?elemsPerPage=10 and redirect it to: http://localhost:8077/users.do?elemsPerPage=10 The problem is that when the url rewriter engine finds the "?" character in the url it does not return anything else in the $1 matched parameter. Neither it adds the parameters to the query string. Any ideas? Finally I've found a way to solve this: Rule: <rule> <from>^/users/$</from> <to last="true">/users.do?%{query-string}</to> </rule> There