Question

In our drupal 7 site we were not providing user registration and redirect the the user/register page to the base url using .htaccess.

#Custom redirects

RewriteRule ^user/register$ http://%{HTTP_HOST} [R=301,L]

#End Custom redirects

It is working and now I need to redirect ‘?q=user/register’ also to that base url. When I tried with

  RewriteRule ^?q=user/register$ http://%{HTTP_HOST} [R=301,L]

but it was not working.

Answer 1

The URI /?q=user/register is already the base, it’s just got a query string, the URI is still /. If your goal is to remove the query string, then you need to match against the query string first, which you can’t do in a RewriteRule. You need to match against %{QUERY_STRING} in a RewriteCond:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=user/register
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/? [R=301,L]

Note that the target has a ? at the end, this will remove the query strring so q=user/register won’t get automatically appended.