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Anonymous Girl
Anonymous Girl

Reputation: 642

.htaccess : Removing unwanted symbols from the end of the URL

example.com/category/fruits">unwanted
example.com/subcategory/apple">&Fweds

I want to remove unwanted symbols which are after fruits* so that it becomes:

example.com/category/fruits
example.com/subcategory/apple

I tried but does not help me :

#removing unwanted symbols from the end
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^(category/(.*)/[\w-]++). /$1 [R=301,L,NC,NE] 


RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^(subcategory/(.*)/[\w-]++). /$1 [R=301,L,NC,NE]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 191

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785481

This single rule should work for both the cases:

RewriteRule ^((?:sub)?category/[\w-]++). /$1 [R=301,L,NC,NE]

Remember there is only one / after category or subcategory before matching fruits which is matched using possessive quantifier [\w-]++ to disallow backtracking.

Or if category is just a placeholder:

RewriteRule ^((?:subcategory|category)/[\w-]++). /$1 [R=301,L,NC,NE]

Upvotes: 2

RavinderSingh13
RavinderSingh13

Reputation: 133600

With your shown attempts/rules, please try following. You could combine both the rules shown in your rules file. Please these rules at top of your htaccess file.

Also make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^(category|subcategory)/([^/]*)/([^&]*)&.* /$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L,NC,NE]

Upvotes: 2

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