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Asked: 2026-06-03T23:56:04+00:00

I’m using this format in my htaccess to redirect several pages/links: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule

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I’m using this format in my htaccess to redirect several pages/links:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule special.php http://www.mysite.com [R=301]
...
...
RewriteRule http://www.mysite.com/special.php?t=master http://www.mysite.com/index.php?q=former [R=301, L]

I noticed, first, that only the top line is catching anything, and in fact the others, like the bottom line, did nothing until I put in that top line. Any ideas why?

Second, mysite.com/special.php?t=grave is redirected, by the above top line, to mysite.com/?t=grave , thus retaining the variables in the URL. I don’t want this, I simply want it to go to mysite.com with no variables. How do I do this?

Thanks,
Derek

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  1. Editorial Team

    First, your first rule catches any URI with special.php in it, even if it is followed by a bunch of characters. To limit it to only and exactly special.php, and to make sure the query string is discarded, change it to

    RewriteRule ^special.php$ http://www.mysite.com/? [L, R=301]

    Secondly, rewrite rules only match the part after http://www.mysite.com/ (note the last slash) and before the query string (the part after the question mark). So if you change the format of those rules to 

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} t=master
RewriteRule ^special.php$ index.php?q=former [R=301, L]

    you should be good to go.

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