Question

Some urls are generated via our script. I need to trim all these via htaccess;
I have a few hundred of them, so all ?xxx have to be cleaned.

ie:

domain.com/page.html?word=gclid=4nwseuoSg 

to

domain.com/page.html 

or anything starting with ?, the ? and the rest is not needed.

I tried RewriteRule ^\?(.*)$ / [R=301,L] but did not work 🙁

What do I have to use instead of \?(.*) ?

Answer 1

the path doesn’t contain the querystring. Use RewriteCond to match any none-empty querystring.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  !^$
RewriteRule \.html$ $0 [R=301,L]

I also added a condition that the url has to end in .html just in case you want to add some php script in the future.