I've been trying to rewrite a URL such as
www.somesite.com/?x=372
into a url
www.somesite.com/
My current code does not seem to work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule http://www.somesite.com/ [R=301,L]
I've looked up countless ways of trying to do it with htaccess and still no success.
If you simply want to redirect a client to remove the query string (everything after the ?
in the URL), then you can try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule ^ http://www.somesite.com/? [R=301,L]
You've got most of it right, it seems, but your rule needs to have a match, and your target (the http://www.somesite.com/
) needs a ?
at the end so that any query string before the rewrite won't get appended.
In Apache 2.4 or newer you can use the QSD query string discard flag:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule .* http://www.somesite.com/ [R=301,L,QSD]