Htaccess redirect only one URL with query string

Question

I need to redirect only this URL https://www.mywebsite.com/?lang=en to https://www.mywebsite.com/en/

I try with this without success

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} https://www.mywebsite.com/  
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=en
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mywebsite.com/en/ [R=301,L]

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-12 13:47:24Z

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You need to put an empty question mark ? at the end of your rule's destination to discard old query string from the new url .

To redirect /?lang=en to /en/ you can use the following rule:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=en
RewriteRule ^$ https://www.mywebsite.com/en/? [R=301,L]

Otherwise your new url would look something like /en/?lang=en .

Clear your browser cache before testing this.

edited Apr 12, 2018 at 13:47

answered Apr 12, 2018 at 13:42

Amit Verma

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Laurent Over a year ago

Thanks this work, and is there a generic way perhaps to auto redirect mywebsite.com/something/?lang=en to mywebsite.com/en/something ?

Amit Verma Over a year ago

@Laurent you can use :

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=en RewriteRule ^.*$ https://www.mywebsite.com/en%{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]

Laurent Over a year ago

Yes it work and sorry if i have in old url the .html mywebsite.com/something.html?lang=en to remove it to have only mywebsite.com/en/something

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