Question

I’m struggling with a redirect problem. I need to redirect the following URL with mod_rewrite thorough .htaccess

http://www.mysite.com/somescript.php?&lang=php&var=1&var=2

to the following

http://www.mysite.com/somescript.php?lang=php&var=1&var=2

So, basically I just need to remove the

&

before

lang=php

However, the order is important. Sometimes

&lang=php

appears after other variables in the querystring. in this scenario I need the

&

to remain part of

&lang=php

Is this possible?

To summarise, if &lang=php appears at the beginning of the query string, remove the &. If &lang=php appears anywhere else in the query string, the & must remain.

Hope this is clear!

I would change the script myself but unfortunately I am not the developer, and he doesn’t seem too helpful at the moment; this is a quick fix.

Answer 1

I would replace ?& with ?:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^\&(.*)$
RewriteRule ^somescript\.php$ /somescript.php?%1 [L,R=301]