.htaccess redirect without query string

Question

I'm trying to redirect (note without query strings):

http://www.reviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=135223

to

http://www.reviews.com/

The current rule:

Redirect 301 /review/review_review.cfm http://www.reviews.com/

Causes the original URL to redirect to http://www.reviews.com/?review_id=135223

Based on a few stack questions here and here, I should be able to add a ? to the Redirect rule as below:

Redirect 301 /review/review_review.cfm http://www.reviews.com/?

but this redirects to http://www.reviews.com/?. The trailing ? remains. How do I get rid of this it's killing me.

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-01 05:11:52Z

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You can't get rid of the extraneous ? using mod_alias. The ? will prevent a query string from getting appended but with mod_alias, it unfortunately includes a ? as part of the redirect. However, mod_rewrite won't, because adding the ? to the end, which tells it to not include any existing query string, works the same way as mod_alias, but after that it gets processed again by mod_alias, minus the trailing ?, so the end result is no trailing ? at the end of the URL. So something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?review/review_review.cfm$ http://www.reviews.com/? [L,R=301]

And this would replace the Redirect statement.

answered Mar 1, 2013 at 5:11

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Nick Pyett Over a year ago

For a R=301 type redirect, you can also omit the URL in the redirect, like "/? [L,R=301]"

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@NickPyett You can remove the http://www.reviews.com part whether it's a 301 redirect or not. The only reason you need it there is if the hostname you are redirecting to is different than the hostname that the request is made for. In the case of this particular question, you don't really need the http://www.reviews.com part and the target can simply be: /?.

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