Htaccess Redirect Rewrite Not working together - php

Question

I want to remove the query strings from the urls using Htaccess, I used the following code for changing the urls, It did but after redirection to that url, I am getting 404 error.
and there is rewrite statement also if i use that only, then the new url works without 404 error, but the old urls doesnt get automatically redirected to new urls.
Here is the htaccess and url the I am modifying
Options FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/profile\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user_id=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.meenmipage.com/user/%1? [R=302,L,NC]
Actual Url was:
http://www.meenmipage.com/profile.php?user_id=2
and modified was:
http://www.meenmipage.com/user/2
If i remove the above code and just use the rewrite statement as like this one:
RewriteRule ^user/([^/]*)$ /profile.php?user_id=$1 [NC,L]
Then the new modified url works and the old one also works
Please tell me what to do?

Answer 1

I think you need to remove $ at the end of this line:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/profile\.php
because if the request URI has user_id=2 then this condition will not match

Answer 2

Try This !
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Options -MultiViews
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user_id=([0-9]*)
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.meenmipage.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ //www.www.meenmipage.com?user_id=$1 [L,QSA]