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Kravitz
Kravitz

Reputation: 2859

Apache HTAccess Remove Query String for redirect

It sounds like a relatively simple one but here goes.. I have a wordpress website called example.com It has recently been redeveloped using wordpress however the old sites structure used the following www.example.com/?page_id=22 I want to redirect anything after the domain name that contains /?page_id=[any digit] to the homepage, im having great difficulty in accomplishing this and I also think I may have issues because wordpress itself uses the query string page_id before the permalinks redirects kick in, I could be wrong though but any help on removing the query string directly after a domain name would be great especially keeping in mind that it is a wordpress install.

I have tried various iterations that look like the following to no avail

        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^page_id=(.*)$ 
        RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/  [R=301,L]

        RedirectMatch 301 ^/page_id=(.*)$ /

Upvotes: 2

Views: 333

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784988

Try this rule right at top, just below RewriteEngine On line:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page_id=\d+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /? [R=301,L]

/? will strip off any query string.

Upvotes: 2

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