Any .htaccess wizards out there ?

Does anyone know how to write the htaccess rule so that urls containing parameters can be redirected to the root url ?

In other words I want to redirect:

index.php?blah=fred&bob=joe

to:

index.php only ?

This is to stop Google indexing multiple versions of the same page (loooong story !)

Cheers

Phil

 

I haven't tested this, but something like the following should do the trick:

RewriteRule ^index\.php\?.+$ index.php [R=301]

 

I would use a canonical url

<link rel="canonical" href="http://site.co.uk/index.php" />

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM

 

Nope, it didn't work I'm afraid. The test url index.php?blah=fred remains in the address bar. That's as far as I managed to get myself.

Any ideas ?

Phil

 

If there's a question mark involved you have to use a rewrite condition (RewriteCond) as it's classed as a query string

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1244881/rewrite-query-string

 

Thanks Nick, can't quite get my head around that but I think that it's close to what I want. Maybe after some food I'll figure it out !

@Ashton: thanks for the tip. Not sure that it's applicable in this instance but I'll definately use that to ensure that inbound links to different versions of the domain are treated correctly.

 

How about something like this?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php? [R=301]